Biting Midge (IMAGE)

Oregon State University

Biting Midge

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This 100-million-year-old biting midge, preserved in amber, shows numerous oocysts of the malarial parasite Paleohaemoproteusburmacis, evidence of the oldest ancestral strain of malaria ever discovered.

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(Photo by George Poinar, Jr., courtesy of Oregon State University)

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