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An invasive mosquito threatens catastrophe in Africa

Stephanie Nolen
New York Times·
12 mins to read
An invasive mosquito threatens catastrophe in Africa
A busy street in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia’s second-largest city. Africa has the wherewithal to fight malaria as a rural disease, but urban outbreaks threaten to put vastly more people at risk. Photo / Tiksa Negeri, The New York Times

A malaria-carrying species that thrives in urban areas and resists all insecticides is causing outbreaks in places that have rarely faced the disease.

The narrow wooden benches in the student health clinic at Dire Dawa University in Ethiopia’s second-largest city began to fill up in March last year: feverish students

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