Professor Adrian Hill, the director of the Jenner Institute and a Vaccinology professor at Oxford has discovered a vaccine against Malaria which is at least 75% effective.
Malaria is usually spread by a parasitic female anopheles mosquito when it bites humans in a bid to nurture their eggs. They have a 2-week lifespan at most.
As of date, the existing vaccines have at most 55% efficacy against the disease that isbpopular in the tropics of Africa. As many as 400,000 people a year reportedly die to Malaria.
Researchers believe this breakthrough could provide a huge public health impact. The vaccine which has been tried in Burkina Faso showed a high level of efficiency even 12 months after its initial administration.
Larger trials are to commence across four other African countries to ratify the findings.