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Vaccine Brings Hope in Relieving the Burden of Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa
›By Jennyfer Jimenez // Monday, December 13, 2021
The long fight against malaria has hit a turning point and a new sense of hope has arrived, as the World Health Organization approved the first malaria vaccine on October 6, 2021. Malaria is a vector-borne, life-threatening disease which occurs most commonly in tropical and subtropical areas in the world. These areas are prone to the spread of malaria due to an elevated number of mosquitos that carry the malaria disease, weather conditions that allow for transmission to occur year-round, and the low socio-economic stability of these countries that limit efforts to reduce the transmission.
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