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This 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 r

by jfb 15y ago

This 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 ago
Do 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 ago
  It'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