{"id":8827,"date":"2021-01-31T19:10:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T12:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=8827"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T00:58:42","slug":"new-malaria-causing-mosquito-appears-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/new-malaria-causing-mosquito-appears-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"New malaria-causing mosquito appears in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers at the Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands and the Armauer Hansen Institute of Ethiopia say: Larvae of the Anopheles stephensi mosquito &#8211; the main vector for malaria transmission across Africa, are present in many countries on the continent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This mosquito only appeared in a few places in Africa a few years ago. But they are &#8220;very much present&#8221; in water containers in Ethiopian cities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most African mosquitoes that can transmit malaria breed in rural areas. However, experts have feared this particular mosquito has adapted to urban environments, including cities in Ethiopia, Sudan and Djibouti.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8828\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/muoi-cnn-16004178424181317326059-16120828564781071835502.jpg\" alt=\"New malaria-causing mosquito appears in Africa\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/muoi-cnn-16004178424181317326059-16120828564781071835502.jpg 620w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/muoi-cnn-16004178424181317326059-16120828564781071835502-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/muoi-cnn-16004178424181317326059-16120828564781071835502-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Malaria, transmitted by the bite of female Anopheles mosquitoes, is a preventable and treatable disease, but in 2019 alone, 409,000 people died from the disease. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Africa region is home to 94% of all malaria deaths in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands and the Armauer Hansen Institute of Ethiopia say: Larvae of the Anopheles stephensi mosquito &#8211; the main vector for malaria transmission across Africa, are present in many countries on the continent. This mosquito only appeared in a few places in Africa a few years ago. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13321,13318],"tags":[4606,2438,2488,4604],"class_list":{"0":"post-8827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness-tips","8":"category-green-life","9":"category-mind-posivity","10":"tag-africa","11":"tag-illume-e-magazine-online-cover","12":"tag-illume-magazine","13":"tag-new-malaria-causing-mosquito"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}