The Causes, Symptoms And Treatment Of Malaria

1. Malaria Vaccination

In 2015, a malaria vaccine called RTS,S/AS01 completed phase three of testing. The only strain of malaria that the vaccine protects against is P. falciparum. Other forms of malaria including P. vivax are not covered. So far, the vaccine has been tested on five seventeen-month-old children and six twelve week old infants with malaria. Results showed that the vaccine was thirty-nine percent effective in the seventeen-month-old group and thirty-one percent effective in the infant group. Both groups were given four doses on a monthly schedule of zero, one, two, and twenty months.