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World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by brosun(m): 6:12am On Oct 09, 2013
From test trial, the world’s first vaccine to tackle malaria, a disease that threatens the life of about 3.3 billion worldwide, will soon be available in commercial quantity for the treatment of the disease.

British drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), is seeking regulatory approval to produce the malaria vaccine for sale, after trial data showed that it had cut the number of cases in African children.

Experts Tuesday welcomed the bid, saying they are optimistic about the possibility of the world's first vaccine being deployed to tame malaria, after the trial results.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), malaria, a mosquito-borne parasitic disease, kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide yearly, with an estimated 219 million cases of the disease reported in 2010, causing an estimated 660,000 deaths.

But scientists said an effective vaccine was crucial to attempts to eradicate the disease instead of the drug regimen being used now to fight it.

The vaccine known as RTS,S was found to have almost halved the number of malaria cases in young children in the trial and to have reduced by about 25 per cent the number of malaria cases in infants.

GSK is developing RTS,S with the non-profit Path Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), supported by funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Researchers found out that the vaccine, which is being developed in the US, protected 12 out of 15 patients from the disease, when given in high doses.
The method is unusual because it involves injecting live but weakened malaria-causing parasites directly into patients to trigger immunity.

"Many millions of malaria cases fill the wards of our hospitals," said Halidou Tinto, a lead investigator on the RTS,S trial from Burkina Faso.

"Progress is being made with bed nets and other measures, but we need more tools to battle this terrible disease,” Tinto added.

The malaria trial was Africa's largest-ever clinical exercise involving almost 15,500 children in seven countries.

The findings were presented at a medical meeting in Durban, South Africa.http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/experts-welcome-world-s-first-malaria-vaccine/161115/

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Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by Infomizer(m): 6:20am On Oct 09, 2013
Nice! Kudos to the fund providers.
Our flitting days are numbered...
Cancer, you're going down next! Sucker!!

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Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by Burger01(m): 6:27am On Oct 09, 2013
Good. All thanks to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. That's what I call achievement. We have useless millionaires and billionaires in Nigeria who would rather use their money for politics, title chasing, land grabbing and senseless oppressions. Here is Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation... saving lives is their aim. Next is to win the war against HIV and Cancer..

Long live Bill and Melinda gate.

cool

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Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by kessgreen(m): 6:50am On Oct 09, 2013
grin[color=#006600][/color]Yeepee!Malaria own don kpafuca malaria own don kpafuca!This is ‎​_̅̅̅G̲̣̣̣̥O̲̣̣̥ό̲̣̣̣̥̥̊ƌ̲̣̣̣̥ new,but i won't believe until it's tried and tested,fourth 2 comment,so glad am on front page too!
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by demelza: 9:02am On Oct 09, 2013
God bless the scientists who worked on this project.
No prayers for the Gates family, they are already blessed.
Lets kick malaria outta Africa!
smiley
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by dominique(f): 9:04am On Oct 09, 2013
The article didn't say if its going to be a once-in-a-lifetime vaccine or a continuous one. I'm happy for the breakthrough, Hope its going to be available for free in the rural areas.

Infomizer: Nice! Kudos to the fund providers.
Our flitting days are numbered...
Cancer, you're going down next! Sucker!!

Article says malaria vaccine not mosquito vaccine. except you don't mind those bugs piercing your skin and sucking your blood, I'm afraid flitting will still have to go on sad
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by Burger01(m): 9:11am On Oct 09, 2013
^^^

What's the relationship between malaria and mosquito
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by dominique(f): 9:15am On Oct 09, 2013
demelza: God bless the scientists who worked on this project.
No prayers for the Gates family, they are already blessed.
Lets kick malaria outta Africa!
smiley

Pls say prayers for them too o. We all need prayers dear, money is not everything.

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Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by Nobody: 9:25am On Oct 09, 2013
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by Infomizer(m): 9:47am On Oct 09, 2013
dominique: The article didn't say if its going to be a once-in-a-lifetime vaccine or a continuous one. I'm happy for the breakthrough, Hope its going to be available for free in the rural areas.



Article says malaria vaccine not mosquito vaccine. except you don't mind those bugs piercing your skin and sucking your blood, I'm afraid flitting will still have to go on sad
I really do mind, I got carried away by the euphoria! Either way, we won't flit forever!
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by Infomizer(m): 9:48am On Oct 09, 2013
dominique: The article didn't say if its going to be a once-in-a-lifetime vaccine or a continuous one. I'm happy for the breakthrough, Hope its going to be available for free in the rural areas.



Article says malaria vaccine not mosquito vaccine. except you don't mind those bugs piercing your skin and sucking your blood, I'm afraid flitting will still have to go on sad
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by Damojo: 9:48am On Oct 09, 2013
Time to invest in GSK shares!

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Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by esbjaygmailco(m): 10:53am On Oct 09, 2013
dancing skelewu
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by lilslick(m): 10:53am On Oct 09, 2013
pls wat is malaria?

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Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by imsuboi(m): 10:54am On Oct 09, 2013
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Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by IAMBREEZY: 10:54am On Oct 09, 2013
Gud
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by theripper3: 10:58am On Oct 09, 2013
Science is awesome I swear.
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by Kenny4lyfe(m): 10:59am On Oct 09, 2013
Bad news for Antimalarial Combination Therapy (ACT) manufacturing companies! grin

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Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by wellmax(m): 11:01am On Oct 09, 2013
Commercially available? hmmm which ones do we have before?
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by Nobody: 11:03am On Oct 09, 2013
Can't wait
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by ceejayluv(m): 11:11am On Oct 09, 2013
wellmax: Commercially available? hmmm which ones do we have before?
Hehehe....
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by Aifey(m): 11:16am On Oct 09, 2013
Here we prefer looting in trillions, buying lands n private jet. Thnks 2 d gates.
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by daywatcher: 11:21am On Oct 09, 2013
Great that GSK has discovered the vaccine. Now they can sell it at an expensive price to Nigerians and by extension Africans. If all was right, Nigerian/African companies should be developing this vaccine and making it readily available to the citizens.

If we have a more visionary leadership, you will only hear about malaria in a history class
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by Nobody: 11:24am On Oct 09, 2013
Nice
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by vowiski(m): 11:30am On Oct 09, 2013
dominique: The article didn't say if its going to be [b]a once-in-a-lifetime vaccine or a continuous on[/b]e. I'm happy for the breakthrough, Hope its going to be available for free in the rural areas.



Article says malaria vaccine not mosquito vaccine. except you don't mind those bugs piercing your skin and sucking your blood, I'm afraid flitting will still have to go on sad

What is the meaning of a Vaccine? Nothing we won't read on NL.. cheesy

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Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by Obinoscopy(m): 11:32am On Oct 09, 2013
A very pertinent question: Has a well planned Clinical Trials from phase I to Phase IV been carried out in Sub-Saharan Africa with the vaccine?

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Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by lertee(f): 11:35am On Oct 09, 2013
Burger01: ^^^

What's the relationship between malaria and mosquito

Do you mean this question or you are just trying to be funny? undecided
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by kflexxy(m): 11:35am On Oct 09, 2013
Dos that means that ota pia pia. Wil go into extinct.. #Curious
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by lertee(f): 11:38am On Oct 09, 2013
lilslick: pls wat is malaria?
Malaria means bread spread with butter,yummy isn't it? undecided

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Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by Obinoscopy(m): 11:40am On Oct 09, 2013
dominique: The article didn't say if its going to be a once-in-a-lifetime vaccine or a continuous one. I'm happy for the breakthrough, Hope its going to be available for free in the rural areas.
I really doubt it being a once-in-a-lifetime vaccine. Most of the once-in-a-lifetime vaccines are anti-viral in nature. But the anti-bacterial and anti-protozoan vaccines I know of are continuous ones.
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by arisetayo(m): 11:43am On Oct 09, 2013
Thank God for this great discovery,its a giant achievement in d field of medicine,but what about mosquitoes noise,how many pple can sleep with their noise in your hear,that's y flirting is till going to go on.
Re: World's First Malaria Vaccine To Be Commercially Available Soon by Nobody: 11:44am On Oct 09, 2013
They have been holding back this vaccine for years. So they are finally releasing it?

When will they release the HIV vaccine?

Just asking..........

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