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disease, but because their buzzing is annoying, while the 
punctures they inflect in the skin are painful and 
often very irritating. 
The Mosquito {Anopheles macidipennU). The 
eonveyor of the parasite of malaria. 
Although malaria has been known for centuries, and 
accurate accounts of it are to be found in the works 
of Hippocrates, Galen, and Celsus, its cause was not 
detected until Laveran in 1880 discovered in the blood 
of patients suffering from malaria a protozoon, since 
named Plasmodium malarice. Blood parasites of this 
