On: We now have an effective vaccine for Malaria

[jfb]

This is one of the reasons that malaria incidence goes down as the number of cattle being raised goes up. Anopheles is happy to take a blood meal from a beef rather than a human.

[FrojoS → jfb]

Do you have a source for this? I find this weird. Wouldn't more food for Anopheles increase their population and hence the risk for humans to get bitten?

[mekoka → FrojoS]

It's been observed that the anophele does prefer cattle. I just dug this though http://www.malariajournal.com/content/6/1/100