MRC Insight article: Blood lust and the mosquito




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August 20th 2014 was World Mosquito Day, marking the 1897 discovery by the British doctor, researcher and military officer Sir Ronald Ross that the female Anopheles mosquito spreads malaria. Claire Hastings looks at what makes this ‘little fly’ one of the most dangerous organisms that has ever lived.

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