No flight, no bite: 'Mosquito grounding' bed net nearly halves malaria infection in Tanzanian children First new insecticide for 40 years that’s shown to be safe and effective for use on nets ...

Mosquito netting and bed nets are simple yet powerful tools that play an essential role in protecting millions of people from mosquito-borne diseases.

Since the turn of the century, over a billion pyrethroid-treated mosquito nets have been distributed around Africa and have proved remarkably effective in reducing malaria rates.

In areas with the new combination bed nets, there was a 51 per cent reduction in risk of a malaria-infective mosquito bite compared to areas with conventional nets.

No flight, no bite - 'Mosquito grounding' bed net nearly halves malaria infection in Tanzanian children First new insecticide for 40 years that’s shown to be safe and effective for use on nets ...

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A man uses a hand fan as he prepares to sleep under a mosquito net on a footpath in New Delhi August 21, 2014. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation ...

Southwest Research Institute tapped into its drug formulation and manufacturing expertise to fabricate two bed netting prototypes targeting malaria-causing blood parasites.

So insecticide-laden sleeping nets should have a strong effect on transmission of malaria, even among insecticide-resistant mosquito populations.

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