COLLEGE PARK, Md. —

Researchers have created a "mosquito STD" in an effort to stop the pesky pests from spreading malaria to humans.

A team of researchers that included a University of Maryland entomologist came up with a deadly fungal infection designed specifically for mosquitoes that's not harmful to humans.

When the mosquitoes mate, the male transmits the infection to female mosquitoes. The females are the ones that spread malaria to humans.

"It's essentially an arms race between the mosquitoes and us," the study's co-author, Raymond St. Leger, a distinguished university professor of entomology at the University of Maryland, said in a statement. "Just as they keep adapting to what we create, we have to continuously develop new and creative ways to fight them."

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