Thursday, 18. January 2007
Topic: NATURE - on January 18, 2007 at 11:00:00 AM CET
Spiders prefer malaria-infested mosquitoes
A jumping spider in East Africa is known to crave mosquitoes engorged with blood. Now scientists find the spider prefers a particular type of them—mosquitoes infested with the deadly malaria parasite.
These predatory spiders could help control the lethal disease, scientists say. Malaria leads to more than one million deaths per year worldwide, mostly children.
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