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Invasive Asian mosquito species threatens African cities: study – Macau Business
A species of mosquito originally from Asia threatens to put tens of millions of city-dwellers in Africa at higher risk of catching malaria …
A species of mosquito originally from Asia threatens to put tens of millions of city-dwellers in Africa at higher risk of catching malaria as the invading insect spreads throughout the continent, a study said Monday.
Malaria — which killed 400,000 people in 2018, mainly children in Africa — is caused by parasites that roughly 40 mosquito species spread among humans when they feed.
The Anopheles gambiae group of mosquito species are the main drivers of malaria’s spread in Africa, but these inse…
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