The Guardian: Malaria trial shows 'striking' 70% reduction in severe illness in children

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This is indeed good news. Note that chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine
phosphate are not mentioned as being used or recommended for use to treat
malaria at this time. Even in early 2020 when I began keeping information on
covid-19 treatments they were considered "old" treatments for malaria even if there was some misinformation that they could be successfully used to treat covid-19. My, how times change! Now on to this new and positive information on treating malaria here in 2021.

"A trial combining vaccinations and prevention drugs has substantially lowered the number of children dying of malaria in two African countries, according to researchers.

The results of the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, have been hailed as “very striking”, especially at a time when decades-long progress on combating malaria has stalled in some countries.

Led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the trial showed a 70% reduction in hospitalisation or death when young children were given both seasonal vaccinations and antimalarial drugs compared to using just one intervention.

Researchers believe the approach could prevent some of the 400,000 deaths from the mosquito-borne disease every year, most of them children. In 2019, more than 90% of the estimated 230m cases of malaria occurred in Africa."

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/aug/26/malaria-trial-shows-striking-70-reduction-in-severe-illness-in-children

There's a lot more text and a photo at the link. This effective treatment consists of
using the first vaccine ever developed for malaria with two anti-malaria drugs.
Vaccines work and medications work. I just hope that the cultists who are now
using animal de-wormer to treat covid-19 won't find out the names of these new anti-malaria medications.

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