Mosquitoes on Ascension do not carry malaria but can nevertheless be a nuisance.

Mosquitoes may not carry malaria but can cause irritation and infected bites.

In many countries, for example, mosquitoes carry malaria, yellow fever or Japanese encephalitis.

"By following my own way I have discovered that a special mosquito carried human malaria!"

The health department will conduct a study next spring and summer to determine whether other mosquitoes are carrying malaria.

Furthermore, at 1661 meters above the sea level, the temperatures are too low for the mosquitoes carrying malaria to survive.

Mosquitoes in Africa as well as other parts of the world may carry malaria or yellow fever.

If it carried malaria, the insect would spread it no further.

And he became convinced that mosquitoes, known to carry malaria - which killed hundreds of people in the state annually - could be controlled.

Six species in the subgenus Kerteszia can carry human malaria.