According to American Sports Data, "3.8 million people are over 300 pounds, over 400, 000 people (mostly males) carry over 400 pounds, and the average adultfemale weighs an unprecedented 163 pounds!"
Pierre Guillet, of the World Health Organization's global malaria programme, said any strategy that could effectively kill, or the reduce the life expectancy of adultfemale mosquitoes, had potential as a way to control the spread of malaria.