Malaria mosquito dosed with disease-fighting bacteria
After thousands of tries, lab gets parasite-carrying insect to catch Wolbachia
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BUILDING A BETTER MOSQUITO An Anopheles stephensi mosquito (shown) can give people the parasite that causes malaria. A new study has infected this species of mosquito with bacteria that subvert the parasite.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention