• Question: If you could make a vaccine to cure one thing in the world what would it be?

    Asked by Tim to Olga, Madhumidha, Connor, Canice, Aruna, Anthony on 4 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Aruna Chandrasekar

      Aruna Chandrasekar answered on 4 Mar 2020:

      If I could cure any disease in the world with a vaccine, it would definitely be malaria. where I come from, India, especially it is a big problem, and is currently one of the biggest killer diseases in the world.

    • Photo: Anthony Newell

      Anthony Newell answered on 4 Mar 2020: last edited 4 Mar 2020 5:00 pm

      I would say malaria too because it kills about half a million people each year which is about 10 times more than the flu! The current malaria vaccine isn’t very effective either and only works up to about half of the time. Another important thing for vaccines is ensuring that the people who need them the most can get them. Most malaria deaths are in Africa so spending money to get the vaccines to those people is very important.

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