Eugenicist Bill Gates’ Crappy Malaria Vaccine Is Admittedly Only 4% Effective

Is this supposed to be his legacy? Saving Africans from malaria with a vaccine? (You know, instead of causing tens of thousands of Indian children to get non-polio paralysis with botched polio vaccines in a country where polio has supposedly been eradicated anyway?)

If so, Bill and his billions are doing a pretty crappy job at it.

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows the vaccine to be only four percent effective in children over the age of seven.

Via Humanosphere:

The protection provided by the world’s first malaria vaccine all but disappears after seven years, according to a new study. A phase-two clinical trial of Mosquirix (RTS,S) in Kenya showed just 4 percent effectiveness in children older than 7 years. With an already relatively low rate of malaria prevention, this is another setback for GlaxoSmithKline, the developer of the vaccine.

Then again, in Bill’s own words, a really effective vaccine will help lower the world’s population by 10 or 15 percent:

Gates: First, we’ve got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent, but there we see an increase of about 1.3.