Researchers at the University of Oxford and the Serum Institute of India have developed a malaria vaccine that could help eliminate the disease by 2040. Scientists reported that portal Speech.
Approximately 500 thousand people suffer from malaria. Plasmodium falciparum, which causes the disease, is transmitted through mosquito bites and then multiplies in the human body. During the course of the disease, parasites destroy human red blood cells, as a result of which the patient dies from severe anemia. Scientists want to destroy parasites as soon as they enter the body through the skin, before infection begins to develop.
The R21/Matrix vaccine has already received WHO approval. Among the advantages of the drug are that it helps overcome the disease in the early stages, that it is easy and cheap to mass produce, and in the trials, it was revealed that 21/Matrix reduced the incidence of the disease by 75%.
“We don’t think there will be full relief in five or ten years, a realistic figure is around 15 years. 2040 would be a reasonable target for a vaccine. No one recommends abandoning current measures (mosquito nets and medicine). “But now humanity has a new remedy that can protect it better than all other methods,” said experts.
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