Posted on October 21, 2025
What happens right after an infected malaria mosquito bites you, but before you feel sick?
Posted on October 16, 2025
Malaria remains one of the world’s most persistent and deadly infectious diseases.
Posted on August 20, 2025
PRETORIA - Medical entomologist Dr Ashley Burke describes herself as a bit of a detective, a biologist and a public health worker rolled into one. As the newest member of the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, and a lecturer in the School of Health...
Posted on August 19, 2025
How is malaria finally transmitted and what is the best way to avoid getting malaria?
Posted on August 12, 2025
Newly emerged mosquitoes must feed to survive.
Posted on August 05, 2025
The world’s deadliest animal must undergo the delicate process of adult mosquito emergence
Posted on July 29, 2025
In the pupal stage, the mosquito undergoes its final transformation from water-bound larva to winged adult.
Posted on July 22, 2025
Mosquitoes spend most of their life cycle in water.
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