• Question: How do insects that carry infections be immune to the infection they carry?

    Asked by PBB to Max, Francis, Ben on 15 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Ben Mulhearn

      Ben Mulhearn answered on 15 Mar 2018:

      Yes! Although I wouldn’t say immune, I would just say they are not susceptible to the diseaes. One example is the mosquito and malaria. Mosquitos don’t ‘get’ malaria

    • Photo: Francis Man

      Francis Man answered on 15 Mar 2018:

      Many microbes use different species to get through the various stages of their life cycles. To use Ben’s example, malaria uses mosquitoes as a way to spread. It uses humans as a host to multiply.
      From malaria’s point of view, it works pretty well.

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