The Anopheles stephensi is a well-known malaria mosquito, but still sort of new in Ethiopia, where it has caused dramatic, out-of-season outbreaks in ill-equipped cities, new research shows.
The Anopheles stephensi mosquito, seen here sitting on a window, is year-round pest that has invaded urban areas in parts of Africa, and has recently been the cause of dramatic outbreaks of malaria in Ethiopia.Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images
, she says the reason for that surge in cases seems to fall squarely on the shoulders of a relatively new arrival in Ethiopia — the"It's not a new mosquito to science at all," says Zohdy."It's actually probably one of the most well-studied malaria mosquitoes in the world." The mosquito has also now shown up in Somalia, Sudan, most recently in Nigeria, and possibly elsewhere. The new research focuses on Dire Dawa, and shows for the first time what scientists had suspected — that the new mosquito is behind these dramatic malaria outbreaks.
"Because of rapidly expanding urban settings and poor infrastructure, people tend to store water in containers," Fitsum says.
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