The dry-season malaria paradox, a bar to eradication, is solved
The mosquitoes hide, and enter a state of torpor
The mosquitoes that transmit malaria in Africa have short and merry lives. Six or seven weeks is as much as their adults can manage. To maintain their populations they must lay eggs in water, in which their larvae then grow and pupate.
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