LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Spraying insecticides indoors offers children no additional protection from malaria when bed nets are used, a study said on Tuesday, as malaria cases and deaths ...

It's that time of year to enjoy the great outdoors, which unfortunately means having to share all the fun with the pesky bugs that also come out. Our standard summer arsenal includes citronella ...

It sounds like a contradiction, but it’s true: Insecticide-treated mosquito nets are effective even against some insecticide-resistant mosquitoes, a new study shows. Mosquito nets treated with ...

Do they still help prevent disease caused by the bite of infected mosquitoes? A five-year study offers cause for concern as well as good news. Have bed nets lost their power to protect people from ...

One method widely used to control malaria is providing families with insecticide-treated bed nets. Overall, this strategy is very successful, having halting hundreds of millions of cases over the past ...

(Beyond Pesticides, January 5, 2022) The use of insecticidal bed nets (IBNs) to prevent mosquito bites in malaria-endemic communities can result in resistance developing in secondary pests like bed ...

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Time was, there was a thriving market for bed nets in Ghana. A local tailor would craft one out of lace or other cotton fabric and families were protected as they slept from mosquitoes carrying the ...

There is no need to spray insecticide on walls for malaria control when people sleep under treated bed nets, according to new research. Use of insecticide sprayed on internal walls, when combined with ...

A new type of bed net could prevent millions of cases of malaria, according to new research published in The Lancet today (10 August). The two-year clinical trial in Burkina Faso, West Africa ...