The has greenlit a new, more effective vaccine for malaria, the first yet to reach the organization's efficacy standards.Malaria, a mosquito-borne disease, killed roughly 619,000 people worldwide in 2021 and global cases exceeded 247 million, up from 245 million the year prior and 96 percent of those cases were recorded in the WHO’s Africa region, where the disease is endemic and more than 1billion people live. The global health body is now recommending the inexpensive R21/Matrix-M vaccine, only the second anti-malaria shot to be endorsed by the WHO and the first to reach the agency's 75 percent efficacy standard.
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