Malaria, which can be spread through mosquito bites, is a far bigger killer in Africa than Covid-19The Oxford team behind the coronavirus jab has taken a big step towards producing a cheap and effective vaccine for malaria. The Jenner Institute said that it was due to enter the final stage of human trials with its vaccine, which it hopes could combat the almost half a million annual deaths, mainly in children. And it’s going to be very low-priced,” Adrian Hill, director of the institute, said. After promising early trials, the vaccine is going into the final-stage phase-three trials, where it will be tested on 4,800 children in five sites in Africa. The announcement is the latest good news for British science after a month in which the

Source: The Times December 05, 2020 00:06 UTC