Biologists Think They Know How Mosquitoes First Got Their Thirst For Human Blood

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Back in 2015 some 438,000 people died from malaria alone, with the WHO noting that Anopheles mosquitoes were capable of spreading the disease. Meanwhile, the Aedes aegypti species carries a range of different illnesses as well. For instance, they can pass on dengue fever, the Zika virus, yellow fever and chikungunya.

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