What if you briefly treated Malaria instead of killing mosquitoes? Harvard scientists think that if you give the mosquito’s malaria medication, this infamous disease carrier can be turned into harmless water. Malaria, a parasitic disease spread by female mosquitoes, causes almost 600,000 deaths every year, and most children are effective in killing mosquitoes that focus on pesticide -coated bed nets, creating physical barriers, and landing on them. Bbc.
However, the resistance to pesticides increases and the effect is lowered. To solve this problem, Harvard researchers confirmed two types of killing all parasites when testing various drugs in malaria and absorbing insects. The idea is to add this medicine to the net, so even if mosquitoes survive, they can no longer spread malaria. Alexandra Probst, co -author of research, calls the studies presented in the journal. nature Malaria parasites are new approaches that are less likely to be resistant to these drugs due to limited numbers found in each mosquitoes compared to infected humans.
The laboratory results look promising: drug treatment lasts for up to one year for processed materials, so it is a durable and cost -effective alternative to the current method. The following steps (testing this drug -coated net under actual conditions) begin in Ethiopia. The results are unexpected for at least six years, but we hope to provide double strategies for malaria transmission using both drugs and insecticides. “Malaria control needs innovation desperately,” said Flaminia Catteruccia, co -author, co -author. Release. “This is a significant progress in the development of new mosquito -targeted malaria control strategies.” (This is made with the help of AI. Read the AI policy.)
