"This is a historic moment. The long-awaited malaria vaccine for children is a breakthrough for science, child health and malaria control," said WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a statement. "Using this vaccine on top of existing tools to prevent malaria could save tens of thousands of young lives each year."
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The WHO has certified 100 countries or territories as malaria-free, but only 40 of those eliminated the disease through specific public health measures; the rest are places “where malaria never existed or disappeared without specific measures.”
Read MoreThat ideal world is far from reality. Face shields which for-example are rarely used in standard medical environments outside surgeries and very select procedures, ended up being second in demand only to face masks, which have also been in short supply.
The whine of a mosquito may be the most annoying sound on earth and if you’re in a zone where mosquitoes transmit disease, it can also be a dangerous one. Where did they come from and what do we know about them?
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“We are going to make it mandatory for everybody who is not in his/her house to wear a cloth face mask covering all the time; the mouth and the nose,” those were the words of Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni while easing the lockdown on May 4th, 2020
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Read MoreThe key point is that the benefit from masks is not that they stop people catching the virus, but that they might help to stop people spreading it.