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Children raise funds to prevent malaria

Last updated Friday, September 9, 2011 - 8:45pm

OGDEN — The 30 children enrolled in Elim Lutheran Church’s Vacation Bible School raised $288.70 to contribute to the Lutheran Malaria Initiative, said Pastor DanaLee Simon of Elim Lutheran Church in Ogden.

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Scientists transform mosquitoes into anti-malaria weapons

Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, April 29, 2011 - 3:51pm

Malaria, a parasitic disease transmitted by mosquito bites, has resisted insecticides, mosquito netting and other eradication efforts. Recently, a team of scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Washington in Seattle reported on a genetic approach.

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Researchers work to create malaria-proof mosquitoes

Hudson Gee, The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 3:44pm

Open the door to a vault-like room at the University of California, Davis, and the cool sterility of a laboratory gives way to the sticky heat of the tropics, with thousands of mosquitoes buzzing in cages and feasting on blood.

Here in the university's medical-sciences complex, researchers are studying mosquitoes that they have genetically altered to resist the parasite that causes malaria.

In other words, malaria-proof mosquitoes.

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