{"id":133134,"date":"2021-12-27T05:23:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T13:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/who-recommends-its-first-malaria-vaccine"},"modified":"2021-12-27T05:23:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T13:23:36","slug":"who-recommends-its-first-malaria-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/who-recommends-its-first-malaria-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"WHO recommends its first malaria vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/who-recommends-its-first-malaria-vaccine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially recommended the widespread use of a malaria vaccine for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs some of you may know, I started my career as a malaria researcher, and I longed for the day that we would have an effective vaccine against this ancient and terrible disease,\u201d Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-on-who-recommendation-for-wider-use-of-the-rts-s-malaria-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cToday is that day, an historic day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/health\/oxford-malaria-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Malaria<\/a> is a serious parasitic disease spread by mosquitoes. Although eradicated in the U.S. and many other countries, it\u2019s a major threat to people in other parts of the world, claiming more than 400,000 lives every year, and about half of the deaths are children under the age of five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially recommended the widespread use of a malaria vaccine for the first time. \u201cAs some of you may know, I started my career as a malaria researcher, and I longed for the day that we would have an effective vaccine against this ancient and terrible disease,\u201d Director-General Tedros Adhanom [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}