Malaria is indeed a global terrorist.
The disease, caused by the parasite Plasmodium and transmitted by infected anopheline mosquitoes, strikes some 350 to 500 million people a year,...
Win Surachetpong and Shirley Luckhart
MALARIA RESEARCHERS Win Surachetpong and his major professor Shirley Luckhart working in the Luckhart lab at the University of California, Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Malaria Mosquito
MALARIA MOSQUITO--Anopheles gambiae is known for transmitting malaria. This photo was taken by Anthony "Anton" Cornel, an associate professor of entomology at UC Davis with a mosquito research lab at the Kearney Agricultural Center, Parlier. (Photo by Anton Cornel)
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