Mosquito Sex, key in Malaria Battles

3000 Children dying Daily Because of this Beast

But how probable is it that the departed monster was the kind that transmits malaria?The latest research shows that the answer has a lot to do with intimate details of the bug’s sex life.

There are a few hundred mosquito species in the genus Anopheles, but just a few are responsible for a great majority of the 600,000 annual malaria deaths.