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Malaria Vaccine, Via Mosquito

Posted by timothy on from the absolutely-nothing-can-go-wrong dept.

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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  1. Mutation by sopssa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This should be fun when the vaccine mutates in the mosquitoes that carry and spread it :)

    1. Re:Mutation by sopssa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ladies, get your pussies ready!

  3. Re:Biology imitates computer science? by uvajed_ekil · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes.

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    The resources that before playing to on my Pentium Pro (I always bring my [idge.net] about 700 users NOT SO BAD. T9O THE open platform,