An outbreak of malaria in Ethiopia earlier this year has been linked to an invasive species of mosquito that can persist through the dry season
Their study spanned April to June 2022 and included around 1000 participants.and the rate of malaria in the city. Around 97 per cent of the mosquitoes the team found werePeople living in households with water storage containers, where the insects could lay eggs, were more than three times as likely to test positive for a malaria infection than those without. Tadesse presented these results at a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Seattle on 1 November.
at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, who was not involved in the work. Without significant investment in preventing the insects’ spread, says Ahmen, “catastrophe is coming”.
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