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Mosquitoes deliver malaria 'vaccine' through bites - Yahoo! News

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 11:34:11 PM GMT

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.

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