Scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, have discovered a potentially dangerous new malaria-transmitting mosquito in Kenya.
The species, which has never been cited in the transmission of malaria before, poses a threat because it bites humans at times when they are not protected by current malaria control techniques.
The commonly caught anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malaria in Africa, generally, prefer to rest indoors and feed on humans at night.
However, this new mosquito was found to be active outdoors and bites people earlier in the evening soon after sunset.
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