Week after week in late 2003, Kija Ng’habi spent his mornings capturing mosquitoes. In the Tanzanian village of Lupiro, he and a colleague would go from house to house, noting where they’d found each live insect. In spite of the bed nets beneath which most of the houses’ occupants slept, many mosquitoes had taken blood meals during the night.
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