Malaria causes your blood thirsty mosquitoes

The main malaria vectors are mosquitoes, and without them, the percentage of people infected with malaria would be much less. According to new research, the smell of a person infected with malaria, more attractive to mosquitoes: this reaction is a result of effects on the malaria parasite. According to statistics, cases of malaria mosquitoes bite people are three times more likely than non-infected and thus themselves become infected with the disease. But unlike humans by mosquitoes do not die from it, and become carriers of the parasite.

While scientists do not quite understand the principle on which mosquitoes define "victim", but it is assumed that the parasite causes some changes in the olfactory system of mosquitoes. For the experiment, the researchers used the socks worn by people with malaria, and found that uninfected mosquitoes them pulls much less than positive.

Annually Malaria infects more than 200 million people, 770 thousand of them die. Understanding the principles of malaria may be critical for the prevention of disease.

via factroom.ru