It has moved from being a hustler fighting pesticides on the ground and first floors into a hard-nosed bloodsucker on the third and fourth floors.
Whereas we had not bothered with mosquito nets and repellents before, I now find that these are survival kits even for those that live on fourth-floor apartments.
Is it just me or have mosquitoes become bolder and more ambitious? They have liberally multiplied and amplified their biting tactics. It used to be that the higher up you lived in a flat, the less likely you were to suffer from the unwanted guest that’s the mosquito. Not anymore. The Nairobi mosquito is cruel and arrogant. It has moved from being a hustler fighting pesticides on the ground and first floors into a hard-nosed bloodsucker on the third and fourth floors. Whereas we had not bothered with mosquito nets and repellents before, I now find that these are survival kits even for those that live on fourth-floor apartments.
