Mosquitoes use gut bacteria to fight the malaria they transmit – scientists are exploring how to use this to end the disease

By Chia-Yu Chen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wits Research Institute for Malaria, University of the Witwatersrand
Shüné Oliver, Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases

The months of September to May are an unfortunate season in South Africa: malaria season. The mosquito-borne disease is found in the north-eastern districts of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces.

There are fewer malaria cases in South Africa compared to other African countries. The World Health Organization estimated there were over 10 million cases of malaria in…

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