"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."
Read MoreThe 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.”
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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