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When do malaria mosquitoes bite humans?

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Dr. Steven Bowers answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Easy: When they are hungry, which is all the time. If you are in an area where malaria is endemic, take the appropriate prophylaxis, where repellent and sleep under repellent impregnated mesh.

Answered 4/9/2013

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Dr. Michael Ein answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

Any time: The mosquitoes that cause malaria typically feed between dusk and dawn but they can bite at any time so use insect repellant that contains 20-40% deet or 10% Permethrin whenever you go out in a malaria endemic region.

Answered 6/30/2014

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