Can protecting mosquitos from malaria defeat the disease?

Experts say newly discovered microbe inside the insects could help prevent countless human deaths

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(Image credit: CHRISTOPHE SIMON AFP)

Scientists have discovered a microbe carried by some mosquitos that prevents the insects from being infected with malaria parasites - and by extension, from transmitting the deadly disease to humans.

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