The story so far: On October 6, the World Health Organization made a historic announcement, endorsing the first-ever malaria vaccine, RTS,S, among children in sub-Saharan Africa, and in other regions with moderate-to-high Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission. Editorial | Killing the chills: On the malaria vaccine As Matthew B. Laurens argues in a paper in Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics : “An …