Prototype Mosquito Blood-Meal Identification Test Kit, 1968-1979
- Made:
- 1968-1979 in unknown place
- developer:
- Peter Boreham
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Prototype Mosquito Blood-Meal Identification Test Kit, developed by Professor Peter Boreham, c1968-1979.
Professor Peter Boreham developed this prototype testing kit to fight malaria. It was the forerunner to modern kits used to analyse mosquitoes’ feeding habits. Mosquitoes carry malaria. It could also be used on other biting flies such as sandflies, ticks and tsetse flies. It highlighted which mammals they predominantly feed upon. There are still around 500 million cases of malaria annually, with at least one million deaths. Around 40% of the world’s population is at risk from malaria. Nearly 3000 children die from the disease every day.
Details
- Category:
- Clinical Diagnosis
- Object Number:
- 2005-60
- Materials:
- cardboard, plastic, foam, bioactive glass and stainless steel
- Measurements:
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overall: 60 mm x 255 mm x 160 mm, .66kg
- credit:
- Donated by Dr Robyn Pugh in memory of her late husband Professor Peter Boreham
