<p>Two hundred genetically modified mosquitoes with an experimental malaria vaccine packed inside a Chinese food takeout-style box inoculated 26 participants in a University of Washington study last month.</p>
<p>As reported by <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://thecountersignal.com/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-vaccinate-a-human/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Counter Signal</a>, each participant placed their arms in the box to receive three to five jabs over 30-day intervals during the clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health.</p>
<p>&#8220;We use the mosquitoes like they&#8217;re 1,000 small flying syringes,&#8221; Dr. Sean Murphy, physician and scientist at the university, told <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/09/21/1112727841/a-box-of-200-mosquitoes-did-the-vaccinating-in-this-malaria-trial-thats-not-a-jo">NPR</a>.</p>
<p>Murphy, who also serves as the lead author on a Science Translational Medicine paper that details the vaccine trials, said the study would not be used to vaccinate millions of people. Instead, the team crafted the bloodsuckers because formulating a parasite delivered with a needle takes up too much time and money.</p>
<p>Using a flying insect during the early stages of the trial made more sense for delivery because the parasites mature much quicker.</p>
<p>Still, those tiny flying needles infected the subjects with a minor version of malaria but not enough to cause severe illness.</p>
<p>&#8220;Half of the individuals in each vaccine group did not develop detectable P. falciparum infection, and a subset of these individuals was subjected to a second [Controlled Human Malaria Infection] 6 months later and remained partially protected,&#8221; the study reads, according to <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abn9709">Sceince.org</a>. &#8220;These results support further development of genetically attenuated sporozoites as potential malaria vaccines.&#8221;</p>
<p>Carolina Reid, a volunteer, was one of the participants who came down with malaria.</p>
<p>&#8220;My whole forearm swelled and blistered,&#8221; Carolina Reid, volunteer, told NPR. &#8220;My family was laughing, asking like, &#8216;why are you subjecting yourself to this?'&#8221;</p>
<p>Reid, who joined the trial in 2018, pocketed a $4,100 payment for participating in the study.</p>
<p>Others who were protected against the disease only lasted a few months before the vaccine wore off.</p>
<p>Dr. Kirsten Lyke, a physician and vaccine researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, told NPR, &#8220;they went old school with this one.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;All things old become new again,&#8221; she said, adding that developing such genetically modified live parasites has proven to be a &#8220;total game changer.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to the university&#8217;s <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://twitter.com/UMBaltimore/status/1545453781298593792?s=20&amp;t=5bJ0ConXj6EccwsY0RV4Mw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> page, Lyke led the Phase 1 trials for the Pfizer/NioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and served as co-investigator for the Moderna and Novavax COVID-19 vaccine trials.</p>
<p>Researchers believe the experimental approach could result in a more effective vaccine in the future, considering the world&#8217;s first malaria jab only has an efficacy rate of 30-40%, according to the World Health Organization.</p>
<p>&#8220;We think we can obviously do better,&#8221; Stefan Kappe, an author of the study and parasitologist at the University of Washington Seattle and Seattle Children&#8217;s Research Institute, told NPR, adding that &#8220;increasing production capability to scale up manufacturing will require investment.&#8221;</p>
<p>The team said they would eventually transfer the vaccine into syringes rather than mosquitoes to get a more accurate dosage.</p>

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