Mosquito sounds used to represent malaria in new art installation at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History

26 September 2024

Dr Marianne Sinka provided recordings of the Anopheles funestus mosquito for use in a new art installation at the Natural History Museum in Oxford which opens today.

Focusing on global diseases, the installation includes a sculpture of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria in humans, combined with a recording of the sound of mosquitoes. The parasite is transmitted through the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito and is responsible for around 50% of all malaria cases globally.

The full installation features six dramatically upscaled bacteria, viruses and parasites made from woven English willow and celebrates thirty years of vaccine development at the Oxford Vaccine Group (OVG) - tackling some of the world’s most deadly diseases: pneumonia, meningitis, typhoid, Covid, malaria, and Ebola.

More information here and here.