Insecticide - treated
bed nets resulted in the largest reduction, accounting for 68 % of the cases prevented, according to the Nature study.
Not exact matches
The
results: even a small charge for
bed nets led to a tremendous drop in their adoption.
As a
result, after many years in which
bed net coverage was extremely low, it is now soaring, and malaria cases are falling sharply in those places in Africa where mass
bed net distribution is being deployed.
As a
result, an estimated 42 % of African households owned at least one insecticide - treated
bed net by mid-2010; about 35 % of children were estimated to sleep under one.
Interbreeding of two malaria mosquito species in the West African country of Mali has
resulted in a «super mosquito» hybrid that's resistant to insecticide - treated
bed nets.