Once-lethal insecticides now require concerningly high concentrations to effectively kill mosquitoes. Some mosquitoes are already immune to all classes of insecticides used to control malaria.
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There are many reasons that malaria is so persistent in Africa. Four of them are poverty, human movement, resistance and climate change.
Mosquitoes can track down potential hosts using the CO2 released by humans’ metabolic processes, a medical entomologist explains.
Artificial lights could trick malaria-transmitting mosquito species that feed nocturnally into behaving as if it’s daytime.
Mosquitoes are among the deadliest animals in the world. Half of the deaths attributed to them are associated with malaria. But they carry other parasites and viruses that threaten human health.
This invasive mosquito thrives in the type of habitat commonly found in urban areas. This means that malaria could become more prevalent in African cities.
Progress against malaria has stalled. There’s been an increase in the number of cases reported since 2015.
The death of a young Italian girl from cerebral malaria has scientists scratching their heads.
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Director: UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria
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Senior lecturer, University of Pretoria
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Scientist, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
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Consultant Scientist, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
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Emeritus Professor of Medical Entomology, University of Florida
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UP ISMC: Project Manager and Coordinator, University of Pretoria
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Research Scientist in Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard University
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