While other mosquito-borne diseases have captured headlines in recent years, malaria remains the most problematic. Every year, several hundred million people become infected and a few hundred thousand perish.Read the whole thing here.
But a recent breakthrough in the genetic modification could help breed disease-resistance into mosquito populations and eradicate malaria altogether.
Researchers genetically modified Anopheles gambiae mosquitos to develop gut microbiota that combats the malaria parasite. Photo by NIAID
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