The Vaccine That Took 40 Years to Make
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Paul Kofio Wolfeau is a public health officer in Ghana, and he thinks a lot about malaria. |
| 0:11.4 | It is so common everybody knows malaria in Ghana and in my community. |
| 0:17.4 | For one thing, Paul's head malaria several times. |
| 0:20.8 | I've heard malaria. |
| 0:22.1 | Even this year I think I've heard malaria so. |
| 0:24.8 | What did it feel like to have it? |
| 0:27.3 | Malaria painful, you have severe headache, you have chills, you have general body weakness, |
| 0:34.7 | you have loss of appetite. |
| 0:37.0 | And it is very painful, very painful. |
| 0:40.2 | Malaria, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, kills more than 400,000 people a year. |
| 0:46.5 | Two-thirds of them are children in Africa under the age of five. |
| 0:51.2 | Just a few years back, Paul's four-year-old son got malaria. |
| 0:55.3 | He came down with symptoms in the middle of the night and Paul had to rush him to the |
| 0:59.4 | hospital. |
| 1:00.7 | He was there for three days, but he was giving some effusions. |
| 1:04.7 | He was very, very with high temperature. |
| 1:08.2 | High temperature. |
| 1:09.2 | The body was very hot to touch, not even warm, very hot to touch. |
| 1:13.2 | Were you scared? |
| 1:14.2 | Very scared. |
| 1:15.2 | I was so scared. |
| 1:17.2 | So scared. |
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