The big one is malaria, infecting 219 million people and claiming 435,000 people in 2017.40 Thanks to Bill and Melinda Gates, GlaxoSmithKline, and Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), a partially effective vaccine against malaria known as Mosquirix was deployed for the first time in 2017, giving hope that the malaria parasite will one day be pushed to extinction.41
