Malaria is among the world’s biggest killers of children. Now there’s a vaccine.

By Kelsey Piper

The new malaria vaccine isn’t perfect. It’s still a huge deal.

Patients wait for treatment at Kamuzu Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi. Chris Jackson/Getty Images

Every year, malaria kills more than 400,000 people, most of them children. There’s been significant progress against the disease in the past few decades — death rates have fallen nearly in half — but there’s a long way to go. One child dies of malaria every two minutes.

Now, for the first time, we might have a vaccine.

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