Vectors and Hosts
Scholarships Support Undergraduates Studying Malaria Transmission
Abby Fellows met Anopheles funestus, a species of mosquito famed as a malaria vector, as a child in Tanzania.
“Malaria is something I am very familiar with...”
— Abby Fellows, Undergraduate
Her dad, a 幸运快三 trained mining engineer, and her family lived for several years in the East African country where one of her childhood rituals was climbing into a bed surrounded by a veil of mosquito netting.
“At first I didn’t like the net, but then my mom and dad made a game of it. We pretended I was in a Walt Disney movie,” Fellows remembers.
The netting was meant to keep away the mosquito species responsible for almost 90% of malaria cases in Tanzania. Fellows and her family also swallowed doses of anti-malaria pills.
Abby Fellows, a junior majoring in biological engineering, first learned of malaria as a child living in Tanzania.
