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WHO recommends first ever malaria vaccine, marking major step in fight against disease

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On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) approved the first ever vaccine for the prevention of malaria. Officials with the organization called it a “glimmer of hope” for Africa.

The WHO recommendation is for RTS,S, or Mosquirix, a vaccine developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline.

Since 2019, 2.3 million doses of Mosquirix have been administered to infants in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi as part of a large-scale pilot program coordinated by the health agency.

Malaria killed approximately 386,000 Africans in 2019, according to a WHO estimate. The majority of those killed by the disease were children.

Malaria is caused by parasites transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito.

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