On 6 October 2021 the World Health Organization recommended the vaccine RTS,S/AS01, branded Mosquirix, for children in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions with high malaria transmission, the first vaccine against a human parasitic disease. Developed by GlaxoSmithKline over some 30 years, it cuts severe malaria in young children by around 30 per cent. In October 2023 the WHO also recommended a second vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, developed at Oxford, with higher efficacy and lower cost. Malaria, spread by Anopheles mosquitoes, kills about 600,000 people a year, most of them African children under five. Vaccination programmes began in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi in 2019.
Before and after
- from 17 September 2021 to 27 June 2025Premiere of Squid Game
- from 19 September 2021 to 13 December 20212021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption
- 26 September 20212021 German federal election
- 5 October 2021Creation of Windows 11
- 6 October 2021The WHO recommends the first malaria vaccine
- 21 October 20212021 Rust shooting incident
- 25 October 20212021 Sudanese coup d'état
- from 31 October 2021 to 13 November 20212021 United Nations Climate Change Conference
- from 1 November 2021 to 30 November 2021Rise of Wikipedia Asian Month 2021
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