{"id":105720,"date":"2021-10-07T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=105720"},"modified":"2021-10-07T06:01:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T10:01:44","slug":"bbc-historic-go-ahead-for-malaria-vaccine-to-protect-african-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=105720","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Historic go-ahead for malaria vaccine to protect African children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children across much of Africa are to be vaccinated against malaria in a historic moment in the fight against the deadly disease.<\/p>\n<p>Malaria has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity for millennia and mostly kills babies and infants.<\/p>\n<p>Having a vaccine &#8211; after more than a century of trying &#8211; is among medicine&#8217;s greatest achievements.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccine &#8211; called RTS,S &#8211; was proven effective six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after the success of pilot immunisation programmes in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, the World Health Organization says the vaccine should be rolled out across sub-Saharan Africa and in other regions with moderate to high malaria transmission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-58810551\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Children across much of Africa are to be vaccinated against malaria in a historic moment in the fight against the deadly disease<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WXJjfJY39H\">https:\/\/t.co\/WXJjfJY39H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCBreaking\/status\/1445780449326821395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children across much of Africa are to be vaccinated against malaria in a historic moment in the fight against the deadly disease. Malaria has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity for millennia and mostly kills babies and infants.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=105720\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,101,589,104,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-children","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-health-medicine","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105723,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105720\/revisions\/105723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}