Sanaria featured in The New York Times, The Soul of a New Vaccine

The sign on the wall reads “Emergency Response Procedures for a Mosquito Release.”

Among them are “Do Not Leave the Room or Open Any Doors!!!” and “Do Not Panic!”

Everything in the room is white, including the lab coats and surgical masks — for sterility, yes, but also the better to see a mosquito. Hanging next to the sign, in vivid Coast Guard orange, is the last line of defense, a brace of fly swatters.

This room, the mosquito dissection lab, in an unassuming biotech park in the Washington suburbs, is at the heart of one of the most controversial ideas in vaccine science.

Sanaria Inc. (meaning “healthy air,” a play on the Italian “mal’aria” or “bad air”) is making a vaccine the old-fashioned way, more or less as Louis Pasteur did.

Read the full article and see the photos in The New York Times.