Female Anopheles mosquito is a carrier of a pathogen that causes

Malaria is transmitted from man to man by the female anopheles mosquito, one of the most capable vectors of human disease. Malaria is caused by a one-celled parasite called a Plasmodium. Female Anopheles mosquitoes pick up the parasite from infected people when they bite to obtain blood needed to nurture their eggs. Inside the mosquito the parasites reproduce and develop. When the mosquito bites again, the parasites contained in the salivary gland are injected and pass into the blood of the person being bitten.