Malaria

Fruit Fly Model Could Explain How Mosquitoes Carry Disease

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 11th, 2000

For the first time, scientists have found a way to turn a fruit fly into a surrogate mosquito, able to carry malaria and infect chickens with the deadly disease.

Their approach, reported in the June 30 issue of Science, may pave the way for better anti-malarial, transmission-blocking vaccines, and engineered mosquitoes that are resistant to malaria.

Malaria remains one of the most devastating public health menaces in the world today, killing more than one million people a year. Nevertheless, scientists know very little about how mosquitoes carry the disease and transmit it from person to person, largely because the insects are difficult...

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