QUESTION

How come only the female mosquitoes can pass malaria?

ANSWER

Malaria is transmitted among humans by female mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. Female mosquitoes need to bite people to get blood, in order  to carry out egg production.  These blood meals are the link between the human and the mosquito hosts in the parasite life cycle. Only female mosquitoes feed on blood, thus males do not transmit the disease.