All that changed in the course of three shots.
One vaccine, being developed by GlaxoSmithKline and tentatively named Mosquirix, reduced the risk of infection from malaria by 65% after the course of three shots and was shown to offer protection to infants under one year of age.
"If you have a lead of four shots, five shots, six shots... at the end of the day, if you play a golf course like this it can be gone very quickly".
This consisted of three shots with 21 days interval.
Made over the course of three years but shot over a 36-hour period, Rock The Box follows Rhiannon as she arrives at the airport in Fort McMurray, Alberta in her home country of Canada for a gig after a lengthy list of international tour dates.
It's a high-risk business, of course, but seven shots at developing medicines that might each be capable of $1bn in annual sales makes Chi-Med an intriguing prospect.
During our walk back, we heard about five shots over the course of ten minutes or so, somewhere in the distance.
Let's not forget the other end of the spectrum, however: Derek Fisher, the veteran (read: old) point guard for the Oklahoma City Thunder, single-handedly challenged his team's reputation of being a collection of fast, athletic, above-the-rim contenders by missing a combined seventeen straight shots over the course of six games.
It requires three shots, often painful, over the course of seven months.
The film, shot over the course of two years by Amy Rice and Alicia Sams, sketches the basic contours of the 2008 campaign, with a particular soft spot for Obama.
