Getting malaria on purpose

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Dylan got malaria on purpose. And he thinks you should, too. Guest: Dylan Matthews, senior correspondent at Vox’s Future Perfect This episode was made in partnership with Vox’s Future Perfect team. For show transcripts, go to vox.com/unxtranscripts For more, go to vox.com/unexplainable And please email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by becoming a Vox Member today: vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.3	One day last spring, my colleague Dylan Matthews drove out to the University of Maryland and made his way to a biosafety level two lab there.
1:07.1	Which sounds very fancy and whatever. It's not like that at all.
1:09.2	Thurnau, has matsuits or anything.
1:12.7	It's just like some plastic folding tables and some metal folding chairs. Basically like an ordinary doctor's waiting room. So Dylan's sitting
1:19.6	there with a bunch of other volunteers waiting. And eventually a nurse comes in with these
1:26.1	cardboard tubes that are about the size of a peanut butter jar.
1:30.1	And each one of those has a bunch of mosquitoes in it.
1:34.4	Mosquitoes carrying malaria.
1:38.2	Now, malaria is an awful disease.
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