First malaria vaccine slashes early childhood mortality – Science

Re:First malaria vaccine slashes early childhood mortality –... by saberdancer on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:39PM (#38017264)

This would mean that a lot of malaria related deaths are unaccounted for or that the vaccine is helping in another way.

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Re:First malaria vaccine slashes early childhood mortality –... by freeone3000 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:28PM (#38018626)

One hypothesis is that some people who caught malaria but did not die from malaria, did die more frequently to another cause where having had malaria was a contributing factor to that death.

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