Mosquito nets are low-cost weapons in the war on malaria, but the biting bugs have become resistant to the insecticides used on these nets. Researchers have now created a chemical arsenal that doesn’t ...
In a fresh approach to blocking transmission of the malaria parasite by mosquitoes, potent antimalarial compounds that kill parasites in mosquitoes are incorporated into bed-net prototypes. Exposure ...
Researchers found a highly effective combination of antimalarial chemical compounds that killed parasites. Adding the compounds to bed nets blocked parasite transmission in mosquitoes without killing ...
Insecticide-treated mosquito nets have been the main preventive measures against malaria in the past decade in sub-Saharan Africa, with hundreds of millions of malaria cases averted attributed to them ...