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Breakthrough in fight against malaria

A feeding female Anopheles stephensi mosquito. [AP photo]

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) has termed the discovery of a parasite that blocks the transmission of malaria from mosquitoes to human beings as a major breakthrough in the fight against the disease.

The microbe in anopheles mosquitoes blocks transmission of Plasmodium, the malaria parasite from insects to people.

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