Minke Holwerda, BSc Biomedical Sciences This October, the Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization (WHO) called it a ‘historic moment’, when the WHO officially recommended the use of the first vaccine against malaria in children living in sub-Saharan Africa [1]. Malaria is a disease caused by Plasmodium parasites that are transmitted to humans by Anopheles mosquitoes and is one of the leading causes of death in low-income countries [2, 3]. In … [Lees meer...]