2-3 million deaths. Not via the saliva of louse, ergo, not transmitted by the bite itself. Mammalian malaria, especially human, vectored by various species of the Anopheles mosquito genus. 100 species of mosquito can vector malaria, but some are better than others. Mosquito Life History Holometabolous - egg, larva, pupa and adult.
Immature stages are aquatic.
Larva are filter feeders on plant and other decaying deris under water. Vector Control targets a reduction in the number of old mosquitos, not an eradication of adult mosquitos. Vector biology and the control of malaria in Africa. Lawler, A. 1994. Vaccine shows promis in Taanzania test.