592 - Anopheles Stephensi: The Invasive Mosquito Threatening to Worsen Malaria in Africa
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The Anopheles stephensi mosquito is threatening to redefine malaria in Africa. In this episode, Thomas Locke, host of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Minute Extended podcast produced by the School Malaria Research Institute, speaks to Eric Ochomo from the Kenya Medical Research Institute, and Seth Irish from the World Health Organization, about the rise of the Anopheles stephensi mosquito. Together, they discuss why the mosquito is in Africa, what this means for malaria, and—more importantly—what can be done.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:32.0 | Hi, I'm Stephanie Desmond. |
| 0:33.9 | Today we're highlighting another podcast from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:38.3 | the Johns Hopkins Malaria Minute Extended, a podcast produced by the school's Malaria Research Institute |
| 0:44.1 | with host Thomas Locke. In this episode, Thomas Locke speaks to Eric Ochimo from the Kenya Medical |
| 0:51.6 | Research Institute and Seth Irish from the World Health Organization |
| 0:55.5 | about the rise of the Anophiles to fencing mosquito in Africa and why it's threatening to |
| 1:00.4 | redefine malaria on the continent. Together, they discuss why the mosquito is in Africa, what this |
| 1:06.1 | means for malaria, and more importantly, what can be done. Let's listen. |
| 1:18.4 | Hello and welcome to Malaria Minute Extended, a podcast sharing the human stories behind the world's leading malaria science. |
| 1:24.5 | Today, a new threat in Africa as a dangerous malaria mosquito species invades the continent. |
| 1:28.3 | Produced by the Malaria Research Institute at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. This is the Johns Hopkins Malaria Minute. Extended. Erica Chomo is an entomologist |
| 1:37.3 | from Kenya. He's dedicated his career to the study of insects and late last year got an unexpected call from someone working for the National |
| 1:46.4 | Museum. They were collecting insects in urban settings in the county of Mazabit and turned to |
| 1:52.8 | Eric for advice. |
| 1:54.1 | The work sitting looking for dragonfly larvae and breeding habitats for dragonfly larvae, they |
| 1:59.7 | breed in water. |
| 2:05.3 | And they came across mosquitoes that they thought were not flying in containers. So they reached out and they're like, we've seen something strange. |
| 2:09.1 | Do you guys want to check it out? So that's how we ended up sending a team arch to Mars a bit. |
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