Do mosquitos get malaria?

[Mark Siddall]

In article <Pine.3.88.9509140912.A7931-0100000 at sungcg.usouthal.edu> kayes at SUNGCG.USOUTHAL.EDU ("Stephen G. Kayes") writes:
>Katy:
>
>	I thought malaria was a disease of mosquitos.  The mosquito is 
>the definitive host for the plasmodium spp.  Humans are intermediate hosts.
>
Steve is absolutely correct here except for one very minor thing.
Yes Plasmodium spp. are parasites of mosquitoes vectored by mammals but 
malaria is not a parasite... it is a disease caused in humans by Plasmodium spp.
As such, by definition, mosquitoes do not get malaria.

Mark
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