Mosquitoes 'resist malaria drugs'
Well, now. Let's see. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the actual story - drug resistant malaria spread from Cambodia - mosquitos aren't (deliberately) targeted by malaria drugs. Ed notes: We did try DDT on them once but that has been fairly uniformly condemned as a "bad thing™".
Anti-malarial drugs target the malaria parasite, Plasmodium, which happens to spend part of its life-cycle in the digestive systems of female Anopheles mosquitos.
Now, I am no biologist or medic, so if I knew this (although I'll admit that I did have to google the name of the parasite genus), why didn't the BBC?
BTW: Still on hiatus!
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