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Resistant mosquito threatens Africa’s fight against malaria

Study links invasive Anopheles stephensi to a recent outbreak in Ethiopia, worrying scientists.
  1. Max Kozlov
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Compelling evidence has emerged that a malaria outbreak in Ethiopia this year was caused by the arrival in eastern Africa of an insecticide-resistant species of mosquito (Anopheles stephensi). The finding complicates disease-elimination efforts in Africa — where 95% of the world’s malaria infections occur — and has worried researchers because A. stephensi’s behaviour is different from that of other malaria carriers.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03540-8

Updates & Corrections

  • Correction 22 February 2023: An earlier version of this story showed an image of a mosquito that was not Anopheles stephensi. The image has been corrected.

References

  1. Sinka, M. E. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 117, 24900–24908 (2020).

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