Freestyl:

Seems like a dream to me, but my question is: how can one identify the vaccinated mosquito from the normal mosquitoes?

lagerwhenindoubt:

That's a tough one for some but the ones at my place have night-vision goggles and gas masks to avoid getting killed by insecticides. I hope these new-fangled vaccination mosquitoes also come with a mandate to kill the malaria-carrying ones

Malaria was eradicated in the U.S. by 1951, so Americans can be forgiven for not giving the disease much thought. But the mosquito-borne scourge is responsible for the deaths of nearly a million children under age 5 each year — mostly in Africa — killing one child every 30 seconds. Half the world's population remains at risk — including travelers to affected countries.

But while initiatives to provide insecticide-treated bed nets and other control measures have cut malaria rates in half in some countries, the disease is adapting, and insecticide-resistant and treatment-resistant strains are increasingly problematic. And the worldwide recession is reducing the funding available to keep malaria-control initiatives going. As a new avenue of attack, the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) — which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — on Friday, Jan. 15, announced a collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Sabin Vaccine Institute to create a whole new kind of malaria vaccine. Called a transmission-blocking vaccine (TBV), it is aimed not at protecting individuals from the disease but at preventing mosquitoes that carry it from spreading it. (See TIME's health and medicine covers.)

"I think it's very encouraging," says Dr. Lee Hall, chief of the Parasitology and International Programs branch of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). "It's a big endorsement by MVI for this general approach."

Traditional vaccines work by introducing a killed or weakened version of a disease into the body, where the immune system spots it and cranks out antibodies against it. Then, if a wild strain of the pathogen comes along later — one that has the power to sicken or kill — the body is ready for it. The new approach is different. Developed by Rhoel Dinglasan, an entomologist and biologist at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, it would instead work within the mosquito gut.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1954177,00.html#ixzz0id6U1eCR

another way of introducing a new infection

Mack Tee:

When are the scientists and medical practitioners of this world going to stop brainwashing us all because of commercial gains?

lagerwhenindoubt:

That's a tough one for some but the ones at my place have night-vision goggles and gas masks to avoid getting killed by insecticides. I hope these new-fangled vaccination mosquitoes also come with a mandate to kill the malaria-carrying ones

Freestyl:

Seems like a dream to me, but my question is: how can one identify the vaccinated mosquito from the normal mosquitoes?

tubabie:

FBS , is it possible You can give us the main link from the Journal and not just the report. It's hard to comment on this report as it is not comprehensive or conclusive enough.

kannymoore:

vaccinating mosquito or malario carrying mosquito, , if one land on my body, , na slap i go slap am!
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So scientists now manufacture mosquitoes? Na wah o. So will these new 'flying doctors' be resistant to Mortein, Raid and other insecticides?

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kannymoore:

vaccinating mosquito or malario carrying mosquito, , if one land on my body, , na slap i go slap am!

mezie4u:

oh yes i'll support Dora led INEC, but we all know that it can never happen in Nigeria. once Iwu is removed, a mallam or another hungry prof will replace him. I rest my case.

Sprumbaba:

Lots of Hybrid Mosquitoes in Surulere Lagos.They go to work in the morning ,come back around 7pm and start clubbing till 9pm before they start feasting on you.

Lot of qualities:

They bite through jeans
They leave several bumps on your face (especially when you are new before you become son of the soil)
They come back at you 10 times stronger after spraying insecticide
They sound like world war II planes when hovering over you
They are extremely fast and I bet you will hardly kill one

Overall, they make like miserable and still give you malaria.
Our house girls have resigned because of them.
Those scientists should come for internship before they develop anything.

samuelk:

another way of introducing a new infection