Malaria Vaccine, Via Mosquito

CodeShark writes "The AP is reporting that mosquitoes have been used for the first time to deliver anti-malarial vaccine through their bites. According to this article the results were crystal clear: 100% of the vaccinated group acquired immunity, everyone in the non-vaccinated control group did not. Those in the control group and developed malaria when exposed to the parasites later, the vaccinated group did not. Malaria kills nearly a million people per year, mostly children."

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Okay, I read TFA, what I want to know is

[dr2chase]

how in holy hell did they get that past the human subjects review board? Athlete's foot and common cold is one thing, intentionally infecting your control group with malaria is something else altogether.

This needs modding

[Louse]

Did anyone else see that XSS?

Next up, new AIDS vaccine is delivered by sluts.

[falconwolf]

Slashdot had an article about how some prostitutes in an African country were immune to AIDS. When I searched I didn't find it but I found another where two Women in China were immune due to a mutant gene.

Falcon

Re:Next up, new AIDS vaccine is delivered by sluts

[repapetilto]

You can get a mutation in the gene for CCR5 which codes for a protein on the outside of the immune cells that HIV sticks to so it can enter and replicate and kill them which eventually leads to aids, actually like 10% of people descended from Europeans have this mutation, the further north you go the more common it gets if I remember correctly. It supposedly got passed on by the people who survived the bubonic plague and became more prevalent since people who didnt have that allele died off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5#CCR5-.CE.9432

Re:Terrible idea.

[Halo1]

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Did you know that Africa could feed itself, and half the world if they simply stopped fighting. Went to modern farming techniques and stopped fighting?

The situation is actually far worse than that. E.g., fairly stable countries like Burkina Faso could easily generate more money than they need every year with their cotton production, if it weren't for

• subsidies by the US and European Union to their own cotton producers that keep the price of cotton on the world market artificially low
• "free" trade agreements that forbid Burkina Faso to locally process the cotton and turn it into higher margin finished products

If you ever have the opportunity, I'd strongly recommend you to watch Let's Make Money. Even if you think that you already have an idea about the kind of abuses that are going on, it really is an eye opener in many ways.