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Eunice Anyango Owino, Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi

THE TRUTH ABOUT: A new invasive mosquito has been found in kenya what this means for malaria control - Caught on Camera

Malaria transmission in Kenya has been largely limited to the coast and western parts of the country. Shutterstock

The Kenya Medical Research Institute recently detected an invasive mosquito species in Laisamis and Saku subcounties of Marsabit county in Kenya’s northern region.

This mosquito, Anopheles stephensi, is native to South Asia and the Middle East. It transmits the two malaria parasites that pose the greatest risk of severe illness and death: Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax.

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