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Landmark Advance As Malaria Vaccine First To Hit WHO Goal
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In a clinical trial in Burkina Faso, the Matrix-M vaccine developed by the University of Oxford s Jenner Institute was found to be 77 percent effective after 450 infants inoculated in 2019 were followed up for a year, the Oxford researchers said in a statement.
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A new malaria vaccine has proven 77 percent effective in trials on infants, British researchers said Friday, in what could prove to be a potential game-changer against the deadly mosquito-borne disease. In a clinical trial in Burkina Faso, the Matrix-M vaccine developed by the University of Oxford s Jenner Institute was found to be 77 percent effective after 450 infants inoculated in 2019 were followed up for a year, the Oxford researchers said in a statement.
New malaria vaccine could have a major public health impact, trial suggests Brendan Morrow © BRIAN ONGORO/AFP via Getty Images A health worker measures the dosage of malaria vaccine in Ndhiwa, Homabay County, western Kenya
University of Oxford scientists have reportedly developed the first malaria vaccine which, in a trial, surpassed a key goal of greater than 75 percent efficacy.
In a trial consisting of 450 children in Burkina Faso between the ages of five and 17 months, this vaccine candidate was shown to be 77 percent effective against malaria,
Bloomberg reports. It also showed a favorable safety profile and was well-tolerated. The study was published in
23 April, 2021
Excellent news today: we have word of the most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered. A year-long trial in Burkina Faso has shown 77% efficacy, which is by far the record, and which opens the way to potentially relieving a nearly incalculable burden of disease and human suffering.
This is a collaboration between the University of Oxford (Jenner Institute
et al.), the KEMRI Wellcome Trust in Kenya, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Novavax, the Serum Institute of India, and especially the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé in Nanoro, Burkina Faso. Let’s talk about Nanoro a bit. It’s in central Burkina Faso, west/northwest of the capital Ouagadougou. Here are some shots of city, town, and rural village life in this part of the country (panel B is in Nanoro itself). The town is in a climate zone with a classic tropical pattern: hardly any rain at all in the hot season (December, January, February) and then a monsoon season in the
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