ZONABANTEN.com – A mosquito net coated with insecticide A new study that makes insects unable to move or fly has reduced cases of malaria in children by about 40 percent, according to a new study conducted in Tanzania involving Canadian researchers.
The two-year study involved 39,000 Tanzanian households.
In a randomized trial with more than 4,500 children aged six months to 14 years, mosquito net coated with insecticide The new chlorfenapyr and pyrethroids – traditional chemicals that kill insects – reduced malaria prevalence by 43 percent in the first year and 37 percent in the second year.
Traditional mosquito nets are only coated with pyrethroids. The double-layered nets also reduced clinical malaria episodes by 44 percent over the two-year study period.
“By testing new types of nets insecticide “Doubtless, we were able to see if either of these new nets was effective in controlling malaria in areas with resistant mosquitoes,” said Dr. Manisha Kulkarni, a professor in the school of epidemiology and public health at the University of Ottawa.
“And what we found is that a new type of net that has two insecticide … “Very successful in reducing malaria infection in children in resistant areas insecticide in the malaria mosquito population.”
Chlorfenapyr is a class insecticide only the first to be approved against malaria in 40 years.
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