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Malaria can survive in cattle, not just humans. Mosquitoes bite infected cows (which don't necessarily have symptoms), then bite humans. It's not like most infe
by wisty 15y ago
Malaria can survive in cattle, not just humans. Mosquitoes bite infected cows (which don't necessarily have symptoms), then bite humans. It's not like most infections diseases, which can be entirely eradicated just by vaccinating a critical number of people.
- jfb 15y agoThis is one of the reasons that malaria incidence goes down as the number of cattle being raised goes up. Anopheles is happy to take a blood meal from a beef rather than a human.
- FrojoS 15y agoDo you have a source for this? I find this weird. Wouldn't more food for Anopheles increase their population and hence the risk for humans to get bitten?
- mekoka 15y agoIt's been observed that the anophele does prefer cattle. I just dug this though http://www.malariajournal.com/content/6/1/100 http://www.malariajournal.com/content/6/1/100