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Why does female mosquito cause malaria and not the male mosquito?

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Question added by dharmendra kumar yadav
Date Posted: 2016/09/18
Mamoona Randhawa
by Mamoona Randhawa , Administrator , Uni Science Acadmey

Only certain species of mosquitoes of the Anopheles genus—and only females of those species—can transmit malaria. Malaria is caused by a one-celled parasite called a Plasmodium. Female Anopheles mosquitoes pick up the parasite from infected people when they bite to obtain blood needed to nurture their eggs.

 

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