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Kenya fails malaria targets as mosquitoes get clever

Mosquitoes are the primary vector for malaria. PHOTO: COURTESY

Kenya has missed its 2017 malaria elimination target with experts warning that mosquitoes have upped their tricks of survival.

For example, around Valentine’s period, malaria experts meeting in Nairobi were discussing how mosquitoes at the Coast might have turned the lovers’ week into a feeding orgy.

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