On Thursday, The Lancet published the initial results of this work with her colleagues: the first-ever clinical trial of a mosquito spit vaccine in humans. (Jessica Manning uses a stethoscope on a healthy child, before enrolling him in a study of Aedes mosquito saliva that will last for several years, in Chbar Mon, Kampong Speu Province, Cambodia. - Reuters filepic)
FIVE years ago, in an office complex with a giant sculpture of a mosquito just northwest of Phnom Penh, Jessica Manning struck on a novel idea. Rather than spend more years in what felt like a futile search for a malaria vaccine, she would take on all mosquito-borne pathogens at once.
Her idea revolved around mosquito spit.
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