What uppppp a big paper was published today on the RTS,S vaccine, the most efficacious malaria vaccine to date, which is currently in Phase 3 clinical trials (the last phase before it can be put on the market). It's weird though that they were like "O HAY we finished 1 year of our clinical trial and we are too excited to wait to publish so we are gonna publish nowwwwwww and then publish the rest later!" That is not standard practice, just showing a snapshot in time of a larger trial. But I guess NEJM thought it was important enough to put it out there. I think we're a long way from what we want in terms of a malaria vaccine, but it's a step in the right direction, and we'll learn a lot by looking at how (and for how long) people respond (or don't) to the vaccine immunologically. EXCITING MALARIA TIMES
In other news, our house is gonna get a GOAT and a GARDEN and I might eventually get furniture!! We are gonna call the goat Katie Lucy Briggs because someone told us we had to name it after ourselves, but we wanted to name it Lucy and thought it was weird to name a pet after us. So we compromised. We are going to make goat cheese. We would actually like the goat cheese-making to be a sustainable enterprise, so if you have any advice about goat farming, hit me up.
Here Katie is teaching Feena the gee-tar.
Feena gets bored of the guitar but not of the camera.
Last night we made spaghetti alla carbonara!! It was soooo tasty, and much needed after so much rice and beans. We even had portobello mushrooms and asparagus as sides! (Ok, I usually don't eat those things, but I am eating them here.)
Of course I do prefer wine and cheese! Katie brought a cheese feast back from Kampala. Then the electricity went out for almost 48 hours, sooo.....we had to eat it ALL.
Tonight Katie did a photoshoot of the kids wearing two of my hats. It was just about the cutest thing ever. I only have these two shots - the rest are on her super nice camera.
More to come!
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