Get Your Malaria Vaccine Via Mosquito Bite
Malaria kills over a million people a year, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa where the infected mosquito population is out of control. Now, epidemiologists are developing a radical new mechanism for vaccinating at-risk populations: through mosquito bites. Researchers at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, staged a small proof-of-principle experiment, aimed at determining whether exposure to…