Researchers aim to use mosquitoes to bite back at malaria

A US scientist is leading an international team of researchers using an army of blood- sucking mosquitoes to produce a potentially potent vaccine against malaria.

Stephen Hoffman, 58, founded Sanaria Inc, a biotech firm solely dedicated to the production of a vaccine against malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that kills one million people a year, many of them African children.

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