Malaria-carrying mosquito changes dinner time againThe malaria-carrying mosquito has changed from feeding early in the evening to late night as it finds its way around insecticide-treated bed nets. For More of This and Other Stories, Grab Your Copy of the Standard Newspaper. Those with resistance were found able to bite through nets, feed indoors and late at night and almost exclusively on humans. No mosquito was found to have fed on a dog, cat, donkey or chicken. The mosquitoes were also found to feed more outdoors becoming a bigger threat to late night and outdoor workers including boda boda operators, on-street twilight girls, watchmen, night runners and night shift workers.

Source: Standard Digital April 26, 2020 21:45 UTC