Sleeping inside a mosquito net will help you prevent mosquito bites as well as diseases caused by them. Mosquito nets can be used inside a bedroom as well as on a cot on the terrace or a balcony.

Adding another insecticide to the protective netting has proved effective in fight against the disease that killed 600,000 in 2022 Two new types of mosquito bed nets have been found to reduce cases of ...

Back in 2010, Chris Stone was spending a lot of nights under a mosquito net in a greenhouse in Ohio. Loose in the greenhouse’s artificially tropical air were many mosquitoes, and Stone, a graduate ...

Mosquitoes are vectors for some of the most dangerous diseases, including malaria, dengue fever, Zika virus, and West Nile virus. In regions where these diseases are prevalent, particularly in ...

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 ...

A novel class of bed net that kills mosquitoes resistant to traditional insecticides by making them unable to move or fly, significantly reduces malaria infection in children, according to new ...

What if, instead of killing mosquitoes that carry malaria, we tried to kill the tiny malaria parasite inside the skeeters before they could pass it on to humans when they bit? That's a question that ...

In many parts of the world, insecticide-impregnated bed nets are utilized not just to keep malaria-carrying mosquitoes from biting, but also to kill them. A new study now shows that such nets could be ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In regions of the world threatened by malaria, bed nets treated with insecticides are an increasingly common public health tool to fend off ...

Malaria remains one of the world’s great scourges, striking more than 500 million people every year. The groups most at risk are pregnant women and children younger than five years old. In sub-Saharan ...