Malaria Vaccine
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Malaria Vaccine
As reported on CBC.CA
So it is estimated that the drug is about 25% effective in the very young and about 50% effective in the under five age group, so according to my weak math skills that means 200,000 kids +/- will live if the whole infant population is vaccinated.
So are you for or against vaccinating these kids, knowing that 300,000 will die anyway ?
Malaria infects around 200 million people a year and killed an estimated 584,000 in 2013, the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 80 percent of malaria deaths are in children under the age of five.
So it is estimated that the drug is about 25% effective in the very young and about 50% effective in the under five age group, so according to my weak math skills that means 200,000 kids +/- will live if the whole infant population is vaccinated.
So are you for or against vaccinating these kids, knowing that 300,000 will die anyway ?
We're lost but we're making good time.
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Re: Malaria Vaccine
Expected the anti- vaxers to be all over this one.
They seem to forget that without vaccines many many families would have died out due to small pox and other plagues.
They seem to forget that without vaccines many many families would have died out due to small pox and other plagues.
We're lost but we're making good time.