Sky News By Thomas Moore
The new jab prevents 30% of severe cases of malaria, even in areas with high uptake of other measures, such as bed nets impregnated with insecticide.
The first vaccine against malaria could be rolled out to billions of people after key advisers to the World Health Organization (WHO) gave it the green light.
Experts on the WHO’s advisory bodies for immunization and malaria concluded the vaccine Mosquirix could save tens of thousands of lives every year.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s director-general, said he had started his career as a malaria researcher and had “longed for the day that we would have an effective vaccine against this ancient and terrible disease”.
