Posted on 08/01/2009 4:21:44 AM PDT by decimon
Malaria kills nearly a million people each year, mostly children under 5 and especially in Africa. Infected mosquitoes inject immature malaria parasites into the skin when they bite; these travel to the liver where they mature and multiply. From there, they enter the bloodstream and attack red blood cells -- the phase that makes people sick.
In a daring experiment in Europe, scientists used mosquitoes as flying needles to deliver a "vaccine" of live malaria parasites through their bites. The results were astounding: Everyone in the vaccine group acquired immunity to malaria; everyone in a non-vaccinated comparison group did not, and developed malaria when exposed to the parasites later.
The study was only a small proof-of-principle test, and its approach is not practical on a large scale. However, it shows that scientists may finally be on the right track to developing an effective vaccine against one of mankind's top killers. A vaccine that uses modified live parasites just entered human testing.
(Excerpt) Read more at sci-tech-today.com ...
I think that the guy who invented small pox vaccine used himself.
what happens when they are released in the wild and mutate. instead of malaria vaccine they carry develop something else.
DDT works great and we don’t risk the world by using it.
I’m sure the UN will put a stop to this. Their biggest worry is overpopulation and malaria is their friend.
The study was only a small proof-of-principle test, and its approach is not practical on a large scale.So far. :')
I can just imagine this...
A mixup at the lab sends out the skeeters with Viagra serum instead.
We should just load up skeeters with vaccines for everything from swine flu to stupidity.
Let them do all the work.
That’s what I’m talking about. A little ingenuity, maestro.
Why don’t they just do this? When they finally create the vaccine, it will contain lead, anti-freeze, MSG and aborted baby tissues.
“We should just load up skeeters with vaccines for everything from swine flu to stupidity.”
Well then I’d be one super healthy super genius. The darned things LOVE me. When I lived deep in the heart of NYC I used to get mosquito bites in Feb & Nov.
And of course I bought a house two houses over from some marshy creek! And of course it has rained for two months straight the first summer I live here.
I state for the record that I LOVE MY HOUSE!
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