MOSQUITOES that are resistant to insecticides might turn out to be friends,
not foes, in the war against killer diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.
Researchers in Cardiff have turned received wisdom on its head with their
discovery that resistant mosquitoes are the least likely to transmit disease
when they bite someone.
“Everyone has always assumed that insecticide resistance is a bad thing
because you get more insects that live longer, and so transmit more disease,”
Janet Hemingway from Cardiff University in Wales told Â鶹´«Ã½.
But her research in Sri Lanka suggests otherwise.
Hemingway discovered that Culex quinquefasciatus…
