Malaria elimination will fail without understanding vector ecology

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 16:07 in Biology & Nature

A global commitment to malaria eradication must also involve a long-term commitment to vector ecology. This is the message of the authors of a Policy Forum article published in this week's PLoS Medicine, who emphasize that malaria eradication efforts will not be successful until a better understanding of the ecology and evolution of the mosquito vectors is gained.

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