Comments on: Why isn’t there a malaria vaccine, and could there be one soon?

By: sailor

sailor — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:11:54 +0000

Lenoxus, that is very funny. Must have been written intentionally by one of their sciency people.

By: Lenoxus

Lenoxus — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:18:50 +0000

Re sailor @ 2: I’m moderately surprised to see a decent HuffPo piece on a project like that, which almost looks designed to trigger off every major warning klaxon in the mind of alt-med folks. (“Giving mosquitos anti-malarial drugs? But that’s Science messing with Nature!” Never mind that human presence and activities are a significant factor in the population growth of mosquitos to begin withâ?¦)

Along with the predictable drek in the comments of that article were a few gems, including this one:

This is gonna backfire when we see an uptick in the number of autistic mosquitoes.

Meant sarcastically, I hope.

By: sailor

sailor — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:01:55 +0000

This is also another promising approach to finishing with maleria
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/health/23microwave.html?_r=2

By: sailor

sailor — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:33:27 +0000

Good news. As is the following:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/24/bacteria-dengue-control-mosquito-vaccine_n_935141.html