Do you use a inefficient vaccine?
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30%. But considering the lives saved...
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/cameroon-rolls-out-worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-2024-01-22/
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Agree 100%. I know that Bill Gates has given billions of USD in this area.
The main problem is that it requires 4 doses. That can be a problem in areas with limited travel ability, nomad type people, etc.
But it is definitely a step in the right direction.
When i was in Nigeria, I was given the option to take a malaria prevention medicine. I believe it was Chloroquine. However, the potential side effects seemed worse that the drug, so I decided not to take it.
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Agree 100%. I know that Bill Gates has given billions of USD in this area.
The main problem is that it requires 4 doses. That can be a problem in areas with limited travel ability, nomad type people, etc.
But it is definitely a step in the right direction.
When i was in Nigeria, I was given the option to take a malaria prevention medicine. I believe it was Chloroquine. However, the potential side effects seemed worse that the drug, so I decided not to take it.
@taiwan_girl said in Do you use a inefficient vaccine?:
I know that Bill Gates has given billions of USD in this area.
Yes, but to what end?????
I was only joking
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Agree 100%. I know that Bill Gates has given billions of USD in this area.
The main problem is that it requires 4 doses. That can be a problem in areas with limited travel ability, nomad type people, etc.
But it is definitely a step in the right direction.
When i was in Nigeria, I was given the option to take a malaria prevention medicine. I believe it was Chloroquine. However, the potential side effects seemed worse that the drug, so I decided not to take it.
When i was in Nigeria, I was given the option to take a malaria prevention medicine. I believe it was Chloroquine. However, the potential side effects seemed worse that the drug, so I decided not to take it.
Was that the multiple dose antimalarial vaccine that had paralysing nightmares as a side effect?
If so back in the 90s I knew a few guys in the oil patch who had the shots for jobs in Africa and experienced just that side effect after a few weeks. They said it was horrific. They could not escape the nightmares by waking up. The nightmares just went on and on throughout the night. One said it got the point they did want to sleep at all.
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@taiwan_girl said in Do you use a inefficient vaccine?:
I know that Bill Gates has given billions of USD in this area.
Yes, but to what end?????
@Doctor-Phibes said in Do you use a inefficient vaccine?:
@taiwan_girl said in Do you use a inefficient vaccine?:
I know that Bill Gates has given billions of USD in this area.
Yes, but to what end?????
Not sure if Bill Gates was involved in that particular vaccine, but malaria is a terrible sickness even if it doesn't kill you. It can put you on your back for a couple of weeks multiple times a year.
So kids miss too much school, farmers can miss planting/harvest season, shopkeepers are unable to keep their business open.
So, even forgetting about the hundreds or thousands of people who die from it, the impact is super huge in places that are already struggling. There is so much economic ripple to to the sickness.
So yeah, it is worth it what he is doing, even if it is only 30% effective at this point.
@Renauda I dont remember. It was pill form, and the side effect that I heard was effecting eyesight, but maybe nightmares was another one. Never took it, and fortunately, never had malaria.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Do you use a inefficient vaccine?:
@taiwan_girl said in Do you use a inefficient vaccine?:
I know that Bill Gates has given billions of USD in this area.
Yes, but to what end?????
Not sure if Bill Gates was involved in that particular vaccine, but malaria is a terrible sickness even if it doesn't kill you. It can put you on your back for a couple of weeks multiple times a year.
So kids miss too much school, farmers can miss planting/harvest season, shopkeepers are unable to keep their business open.
So, even forgetting about the hundreds or thousands of people who die from it, the impact is super huge in places that are already struggling. There is so much economic ripple to to the sickness.
So yeah, it is worth it what he is doing, even if it is only 30% effective at this point.
@Renauda I dont remember. It was pill form, and the side effect that I heard was effecting eyesight, but maybe nightmares was another one. Never took it, and fortunately, never had malaria.
@taiwan_girl said in Do you use a inefficient vaccine?:
Not sure if Bill Gates was involved in that particular vaccine, but malaria is a terrible sickness even if it doesn't kill you. It can put you on your back for a couple of weeks multiple times a year.
I was being ironic. Clearly anything that can be done to reduce Malaria is a very good thing. I was sort of referring to the nonsense that was being written about Bill Gates and Covid vaccination. I know, it's not really very funny at all.
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oops - sorry.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Do you use a inefficient vaccine?:
@taiwan_girl said in Do you use a inefficient vaccine?:
I know that Bill Gates has given billions of USD in this area.
Yes, but to what end?????
Not sure if Bill Gates was involved in that particular vaccine, but malaria is a terrible sickness even if it doesn't kill you. It can put you on your back for a couple of weeks multiple times a year.
So kids miss too much school, farmers can miss planting/harvest season, shopkeepers are unable to keep their business open.
So, even forgetting about the hundreds or thousands of people who die from it, the impact is super huge in places that are already struggling. There is so much economic ripple to to the sickness.
So yeah, it is worth it what he is doing, even if it is only 30% effective at this point.
@Renauda I dont remember. It was pill form, and the side effect that I heard was effecting eyesight, but maybe nightmares was another one. Never took it, and fortunately, never had malaria.
@taiwan_girl said in Do you use a inefficient vaccine?:
@Renauda I dont remember. It was pill form, and the side effect that I heard was effecting eyesight, but maybe nightmares was another one. Never took it, and fortunately, never had malaria.
Come to think of it now it wasn’t shots but rather a series of pills. I don’t recall them saying anything about eyesight being affected. Just the nightmares and then only after a few weeks of talking the routine dosages . I suspect the drug had to accumulate in the system before the side effects started to manifest.
