The battle against malaria in Africa has stalled. Can research in Mozambique explain why?

.news-article__hero--featured .parallax__element{ object-position: 45% 50%; -o-object-position: 45% 50%; } .news-article__figure.inset { float: right !important; width: 33%; margin: 0.5rem 0 0.5rem 1rem; } @media (min-width: 576px) { .news-article__figure.inset { width: 25%; margin: 0.5rem 0 0.5rem 2rem; } } @media (min-width: 768px) { .news-article__figure.inset { width: 40%; margin: 0.5rem 0 0.5rem 1rem; } } Moisés Mapanga, a burly man of 49, is the bait. At 6 p.m. on a mid-April evening, he climbs into an orange tent outside his one-room house in Matutuíne, a hot, swampy district near Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. He will remain there for the next 12 hours, except for a 30-minute dinner and bathroom break. Mosquitoes hunting for their next blood meal fly into the tent, where they are attracted not only to Mapanga, who sleeps under a second tent to protect him from their bites, but to a red light atop a lantern-shaped mosquito trap. Instead of dining, the insects are sucked into a collection cup by a battery-powered fan. The next night Mapanga will repeat the drill with the tent inside his house. Junior entomologist Mara Máquina of the Manhiça Health Research Centre (CISM) and her colleagues are on site to inspect the catch. They are testing house after house in Matutuène to figure out which species of malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquitoes occur there and whether they are biting indoors or outside. The answer...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research