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Why is it that mosquitoes don get malaria although they spread the malarial parasite?

April 26, 2017malaria malarial mosquitoes parasite spread

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Why is it that mosquitoes don get malaria although they spread the malarial parasite?

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Malarial parasites, the Plasmodium species, are intracellular parasites. They multiply and develop in the red blood corpuscles (RBC). Mosquitoes do not have RBCs. As such they don’t get malaria whereas animals like monkeys, rodents, etc., do get malaria.