I spoke recently of advances team of the Colombian scientist Manuel Elkin Patarroyo in the synthetic malaria vaccine development, well, in Spain also research to achieve immunization against this terrible disease and Spanish researcher Pedro Alonso of the Hospital ClÃnic of Barcelona, announced yesterday that the vaccine could be ready by mid-2011.
Every 30 seconds one child under five dies as a result of malaria or malaria, and most of these deaths occur in Africa, something really dramatic if we bear in mind that much of the infection could be prevented with the use of mosquito nets.
although the latest estimates indicated that this vaccine would be available in 2010, its adoption has been delayed a year and half later that his essay has shifted to phase III of research, which gives go-ahead to a test on a large scale of the vaccine in 16,000 children of Mozambique, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya and Malawi.
After the trial, the largest made to date of a vaccine against this disease, could be registered by the European Medicines Agency and the laboratory GlaxoSmithkline (GSK). If all goes as planned, after more than nine years of research, the next problem will be decide when, where and how groups arrive. Let me say here and ask me to who earlier can afford it? I say it is costing us providing bed nets Meanwhile …
Foxsden; Lapicesparalapaz ABC
Tags: combating malaria, infectious diseases, epidemics and malaria vaccine
