rhmc
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Japanese researchers have managed to engineer mosquitoes into “flying vaccinators” that could theoretically be used to deliver protein-based vaccines against diseases such as leishmaniasis and malaria through their bite. The team, from the Jichi Medical University in Japan, report on the development of a transgenic mosquito that can express foreign proteins in its saliva...
more here: http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=78153298
around here, it's not a matter of if i'll get skeeter bit when i go out, it's a matter of how many times.
no malaria here anymore but equine encephalitis and west nile virus show up every year...
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