PRO/AH/EDR> Invasive mosquito – Africa

Other Human Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
For this year’s [2020] World Mosquito Day, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called attention to the “worrying” spread of _Anopheles stephensi_ — an urban mosquito that spreads quickly in human-made habitats.
According to CDC, in recent years _A. stephensi_ has spread from its native habitat of Southern Asia to Eastern Africa, where its arrival in Djibouti was followed by a “startling increase” in urban malaria cases. “The simultaneous emergence of _A.