Thomson Reuters Foundation: To eliminate malaria it’s vital we vaccinate … mosquitoes?
Will Stone, researcher at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

“…[W]hat if we could flip the malaria control paradigm: what if a vaccine could prevent mosquitoes getting malaria from humans? … [W]e are now better able to understand which people contribute to the spread of malaria. For a number of proteins, we are now investigating whether they could have potential as a transmission-blocking malaria vaccine. If they work in the lab, the major challenge for vaccinologists will be making the vaccine adequately powerful and long lasting to reduce malaria transmission in human populations. Ultimately it’s not one approach that will end malaria. However a transmission-blocking vaccine, combined with effective drugs, mosquito control, and a vaccine like RTS’S [(the world’s first malaria vaccine)], could prevent its spread and bring eradication of this deadly disease one step closer” (2/8).