Africa: Three Things You Should Know About Mosquitoes

[The Conversation Africa] For thousands of years malaria was a mysterious illness affecting people across the globe. Even the name of the disease, 'malaria', derived from two Italian words meaning 'bad air', highlights the confusion around the transmission of this disease. It was only following the discovery of malaria parasites in the gut of Anopheles mosquitoes in India by Sir Ronald Ross on 20 August 1897 that a clearer picture of the role of the mosquito in the malaria transmission cycle emerged.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news