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Second malaria vaccine to win global approval is cheaper and easier to make

The World Health Organization has recommended a shot called R21 to prevent the disease in children.
  1. Miryam Naddaf
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Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a female Anopheles gambiae mosquito feeding on human skin.

The Anopheles mosquito spreads malaria. Credit: Eye Of Science/Science Photo Library

The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed a second malaria vaccine to protect children against the deadly disease, which killed 619,000 people in 2021.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03115-1

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  1. Datoo, M. S. et al. Preprint at SSRN http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4584076 (2023).

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