Malaria cases likely to spike due to invasive weed entry in East Africa

The malaria-causing mosquitos have found a new safe haven in an invasive plant previously known to be habitat in South and North America. Researchers from Kenya-based International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) say they have generated new evidence of the immense threat posed by a highly destructive invasive plant, known scientifically as Parthenium hysterophorus.…