Re:Malaria breakthrough as scientists find ‘highly effective...
by _Microft on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @04:07PM
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Indeed. There is a vaccine being tested right now [0] and still a lot of potential for better coverage with insecticide treated bed nets [1][2] (which are pretty effective) and the number of Malaria cases is actually steadily decreasing [3].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTS,S
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_net#Insecticide-treat...
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/malaria#bed-nets
[3] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/malaria-deaths-by-age