World's First Malaria Vaccine Approved By WHO

"Today, WHO is recommending the broad use of the world's first malaria vaccine," the agency's director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday endorsed the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine for children, the first against the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 400,000 a year.

"Today, WHO is recommending the broad use of the world's first malaria vaccine," the agency's director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.