Blood-sucking, disease-carrying fly (8)

I believe the answer is:

mosquito

(Other definitions for mosquito that I've seen before include "Disease-bearing insect" , "Insect that transmits malaria" , "Blood-sucking insect" , "Kind of blood-sucking tropical gnat" , "Malaria transmitter" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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