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Neat News 2020-125 (added 2020-05-04)

Fighting malaria by curing mosquitoes?

© image by Ute Frevert; false color by Margaret Shear [CC BY2.5]

A fungus called Microsporidia MB seems to prevent mosquitoes infected by it from being infected by malaria. As a consequence these mosquitoes cannot infect people with malaria. The insight may hold an enormous potential to control malaria, which currently kills more than 400,000 people per year.

News seen at: BBC - Health

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