The First Anti-Malaria Vaccine : A Gift to the World
Yesterday I happened to read about the most astounding innovation of the year so far (after the Covid-19 vaccine of course). It was something we all living beings on this planet have yearned for since decades. Okay, I might sound a little naive as this was meant to show up someday, but to our surprise, it came at just an unexpected time when the world was already grappling with the awful pandemic. And with this breakthrough in medical research, we are in a way to curb all those parasitic fatalities caused by our no less a stranger disease: Malaria! On this remarkable day of October 6th, 2021, World Health Organization (WHO) approved its first-ever anti-malarial vaccine called RTS, S/AS01 or Mosquirix. This, indeed, has made mankind enter into a turning point in a battle waged relentlessly over decades between man and mosquito. As aptly put by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, “ This is a historic moment. Using this vaccine on top of exi...