It's that time of year to enjoy the great outdoors, which unfortunately means having to share all the fun with the pesky bugs that also come out. Our standard summer arsenal includes citronella ...

Insecticidal Bed Nets Contribute to Resistance in Bed Bug Populations (Beyond Pesticides, January 5, 2022) The use of insecticidal bed nets (IBNs) to prevent mosquito bites in malaria-endemic ...

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 ...

WHEN you argue for humanitarian military intervention, my colleague rightly says, you should be able to show how your military intervention serves humanitarian goals. In the case of the decision to ...

The fight against malaria is a test of human intelligence against mosquitoes — and so far, our minuscule winged enemy is winning. But new results shared this week show substantial improvements in one ...

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 ...

These seven cosy, safe, and budget-friendly baby beds featuring built-in nets in Nigeria will protect your newborn from mosquitoes and ensure peaceful, worry-free nights. With Nigeria accounting for ...

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 ...

While Americans view bed nets, used to stop the spread of malaria, "as a lifesaving gift," rural Africans often consider them an inconvenience, investigative journalist Sonia Shah, writes in the Los ...

Global efforts to eliminate lymphatic filariasis are based on the annual mass administration of antifilarial drugs to reduce the microfilaria reservoir available to the mosquito vector.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Khalif Dahir, 47, a driver at the Aamin Ambulance, sleeps inside a mosquito bed-net in his house after returning from duty, in ...