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What to do if i have been researching elephantiasis but can not find out how the mosquito gets the worm in the first place?
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Elephantiasis: "Mosquitoes are infected with microfilariae by ingesting blood when biting an infected host. Microfilariae mature into infective larvae within the mosquito. " See: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs102/en/
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