Mosquitoes can no longer spread the disease by providing malaria drugs to eliminate infections from malaria drugs, US researchers say.
Malaria parasites, which die almost 600,000 people a year, are spread by female mosquitoes when drinking blood.
The current effort aims to kill mosquitoes with insecticides instead of treating malaria.
But a team at Harvard University found a pair of drugs that could successfully eliminate malaria insects when absorbing legs. The coating bed net of the drug cocktail is a long -term goal.
Sleeping under the bed net was one of the most successful ways to prevent malaria with the main mosquito hunting of malaria at night.
Vaccines are also recommended to protect children living in malaria.
The net is a physical barrier and also contains pesticides that kill mosquitoes that land on them.
But mosquitoes are resistant to insecticides in many countries, and chemicals no longer kill insects as they used to be.
Dr. Alexandra Probst, a Harvard from Harvard, said, “We did not try to kill parasites directly from mosquitoes.
But she says the approach is “no longer cut.”
Researchers can analyze Malaria’s DNA to find weakness while infecting mosquitoes.
They took a large library of potential drugs and narrowed into 22 candidates. They were tested when they received a fabric contaminated with malaria in female mosquitoes.
In the articles of natureScientists describe two very effective drugs that killed 100%of the parasites.
The drug has been tested for materials similar to bed nets.
Dr. PROBST said, “Even if mosquitoes survive in contact with bed nets, parasites die and still do not deliver malaria.
“I think this is a really interesting approach because this is a completely new way aimed at mosquito itself.”
She says that malaria parasites have billions of dollars in each infected person, but they are less likely to be resistant to drugs because they are less than five in each mosquito.
The influence of the drug can last for a year and can be an alternative to the pesticide for a long time, researchers say.
This approach has been proven in the laboratory. The next step is already planned to see if malaria bed nets are effective in the real world in Ethiopia.
It will take at least six years for all research to be completed to know if this approach works.
However, the vision is to rely on other approaches if one approach does not work by treating the bed net with anti -malaria drugs and insecticides.
