Microsporidia are fungi, or at least closely related to them.
Like plasmodium, which is protozoans, they are also known to live inside mosquitoes as parasites.
Mosquitoes inject their saliva into the skin to facilitate blood-feeding.
Mosquitoes inject their saliva into the skin to facilitate blood-feeding. Their saliva contains plasmodium, which is injected together with the saliva resulting in malaria transmission. Photo: CNNSource: Facebook
Their saliva contains plasmodium, which is usually injected together with the saliva resulting in malaria transmission.
The team of scientists had been studying mosquitoes on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya.
That effectively stopped all outbreaks of dengue fever for more than four years.
The vaccine could only decrease malaria cases by 39% and severe cases by 29% in clinical trials.
There has been no significant reduction in the annual numbers of malaria cases since 2014.
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