Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Choose bed nets over insecticide to tackle malaria: study

A man uses a hand fan as he prepares to sleep under a mosquito net on a footpath in New Delhi By Kieran Guilbert 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 worldwide continue to fall. A study by medical journal The Lancet said donors should invest their limited resources on additional bed nets as the most cost-effective solution to tackling malaria, costing an average of $2.20 per person compared to $6.70 for insecticide. ...








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