Advance In Effort To Fight Malaria By Tricking The Mosquito’s Sense Of Smell
By mapping a specialized sensory organ that the malaria mosquito uses to zero in on its human prey, an international team of researchers has taken an important step toward developing new and improved repellants and attractants that can be used to reduce the threat of malaria, generally considered the most prevalent life-threatening disease in the world. The sensory organ is the maxillary palp.
