This insect, in the opinion of zoologists, even quite nice.It has an elongated body, long legs and delicate antennae, belongs to the order Diptera.Just a "pretty face", as it is called anopheles mosquito.How dangerous it bite?This will tell on.
Another name for this insect - "anopheles".It is widespread, but the most dangerous species live in the southern regions.Transfer not only malaria, but also yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, dengue fever.
Does that sound like an ordinary mosquito and malaria?How dangerous is the last one?Both species are blood-sucking, but only drink the blood of females and males is quite harmless.Slightly different appearance.In Anopheles on the wings there are dark spots and landing belly Zadran top.Females lay eggs in standing water, usually in marshy areas.There larvae live, breathe through unique ducts fed by passing through its water and ottsezhivaya fines.When it comes time to hatch, pupa rises to the surface and out of the adult insect takes off.
How dangerous anopheles mosquito?Bites to humans and animals is quite painful, cause itching, redness and allergies.This is the case if the mosquito uninfected.If it is infected, the consequences can be dire as malaria refers to diseases that have a high mortality statistics.It is caused by germs called "plasmodium".Bite mosquito ensures that the pathogen enters the bloodstream.But do not just use the Plasmodium Anopheles as transport, they are for them - an incubator.Therefore, the fight against malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in many countries and is being conducted at the state level.
initially unable to determine the role played by the anopheles mosquito than it dangerous for people.It was believed that the cause of the disease are toxic swamp pairs.Only at the end of the XIX century French physician Charles Laveran suggested that an infectious agent may be protozoa.Parasitology Patrick Manson thought about the fact that this "body" must somehow move from person to person.Ronald Ross found them still in Anopheles.So, global efforts to the twentieth century were defined so that this anopheles mosquito than it is dangerous to humans.But
identified was small, it was necessary to develop a strategy for the fight.The most effective was the draining of wetlands.This was the case at the mouth of the Rhine.Now very few people remember that there has been a hotbed of dangerous infection.So did the forests of Abkhazia, which planted eucalyptus trees, which pumped water from swamps, launched in the remaining small fish mosquito fish - they are natural enemies of mosquitoes and their larvae feed on.But the world has enough seats completely undeveloped, where malaria thrives.It is primarily concerned with the central regions of Africa and South America, that there are now the most dangerous pockets.All tourists should remember that vaccination against the disease is not, and can be saved, unless the time to start taking quinine.
