KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Malaria is transmitted to humans by female mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. Female mosquitoes take blood meals for egg production, and these blood meals are the link between the human and the mosquito hosts in the parasite life cycle.

Detailed explanation-2: -Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. Carrier of malaria-causing protozoan is female Anopheles mosquito.

Detailed explanation-3: -Malaria is caused by a female mosquito, Anopheles; while dengue is caused by Aedes aegypti mosquito. In the past, the presence of a co-infection in an individual is sporadically reported [1, 2]. Both of the diseases cause an acute pyrexial illness; however, only malaria can cause a chronic fever.

Detailed explanation-4: -Anopheles coluzzi. Only this mosquito species has a variant of the TEP1-gene that protects it from infection with the malaria parasite. Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium that mosquitoes transmit to humans. Only few types of mosquitoes can transmit the parasites.