World’s first Malaria Vaccine gets a green light: Yet another medical miracle!! The treatment for Malaria was being practiced since long back but there was never a prementive medicine for the disease. The lack of preventive drugs for Malaria was resulting in 1 million deaths per year.
Going into the details, in the recent past, the scientists based in London made another breakthrough in the field of medicine. They invented a vaccine for Malaria. The vaccine got a ‘Go ahead’ from the European drugs regulators.
They recommended that the drug should be first licensed for babies in Africa who are most prone to the mosquito-borne disease.
The British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline in partnership with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative developed the Malaria vaccine shot. They named it as RTS,S or Mosquirix.
If everything goes on schedule, it would be the first licensed human vaccine against a parasitic disease, which is expected to help prevent millions of cases of malaria in countries that use it.
ecommendations for a drug licence made by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) are normally endorsed by the European Commission within a couple of months.
Mosquirix, also part-funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will also now be assessed by the World Health Organisation, which has promised to give its guidance on when and where it should be used before the end of this year.
