Sentences with phrase «insecticide treated»

You may either dispose of the vacuum bag immediately, or place insecticide treated cotton balls, or a flea collar inside the bag to kill any pre-adult fleas.

Ticks that are killed should be placed in a small sealable and insecticide treated container before discarding.

Work undertaken during this period included demonstration of the efficacy of insecticide treated bed - nets in preventing death from malaria in African children and demonstration of the impact of Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines when deployed in sub-Saharan Africa.

«Drones from insecticide treated colonies had shorter life spans and a modest, but significant, decrease in sperm viability.

«Perhaps the best documented impact of vector control to date has been the impact of distribution of long - lasting insecticide treated nets against malaria.

Vector borne disease control often relies on universal distribution of interventions, such as long - lasting insecticide treated bednets for malaria and mass drug administration for filariasis.

This study's finding — based on analysis of data from 1995 to 2014 — that the decline in under - five death was also accompanied by increases in PMI - funded malaria prevention technologies, such as insecticide treated nets and indoor residual spraying that are known to be effective malaria interventions, provides compelling and important new evidence of the likely effects of PMI funding.

The PSMP aims to accelerate private sector workplace investments in malaria prevention as it will support employers by facilitating cost - effective Insecticide Treated Net (ITN) distribution plans while providing workplace malaria education sessions for company staff and community members.

Sleeping under insecticide treated mosquito nets is so uncomfortable in a humid country like Nigeria.

The items include mattresses, rice, sugar, blankets, plastic buckets, plates, mosquito coils, Insecticide Treated Mosquito Nets, and several others.

The Global Fund, underway in more than 140 countries, has delivered 104 million insecticide treated bed nets and 108 million highly effective doses of malaria medicines, and has also protected millions of homes through indoor spraying.

Not exact matches

An analysis published Sep. 16 in the journal Nature noted that insecticide - treated bed nets, insecticides sprayed on indoor surfaces, and prompt treatment with combination drug therapy collectively helped reduce the spread of malaria throughout a large swath of sub-Saharan Africa.

That encouraging stat also means that many, many children still don't sleep under a bed net or in a house treated with insecticide, according to the WHO.

Insecticide - treated bed nets resulted in the largest reduction, accounting for 68 % of the cases prevented, according to the Nature study.

Crews have treated 685 ash trees with insecticide.

Mrs. Alarbi said studies showed that for babies born to HIV - infected mothers, the use of niverapine drug combined with baby formulas to prevent mother - to - child transmission, could reduce child mortality to only two per cent of under - five mortality and morbidity while the use of insecticide - treated bed nets could reduce it by six per cent.

Nevertheless, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendation of insecticide - treated mosquito nets and indoor residual spraying are very ineffectual in tropical countries.

He points to data showing that plants from treated seeds can «sweat out» minute quantities of the insecticide into morning dew, a beverage popular with bees.

Even five to seven years ago, Benbrook points out, 70 percent of U.S. apples, 79 of pears and 40 to 50 percent of broccoli and cauliflower were treated with these insecticides.

In a Nature paper last year, a group led by Simon Hay at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom estimated that between 2000 and 2015, some 633 million malaria deaths were averted, with 68 % of that decline due to insecticide - treated bed nets and 10 % to IRS.

But when the massive rollout of insecticide - treated bed nets began in Africa in the early 2000s — more than a billion have been distributed — little thought was given to resistance, says Maureen Coetzee, director of the Wits Research Institute for Malaria at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Each of these long - lasting insecticide - treated nets (LLINs) costs only around $ 10 to produce, transport and distribute to households in rural Africa.

But 25 percent of the malaria infections among children could be eradicated by distributing new insecticide - treated bed nets that would cost $ 7 apiece.

«And these levels didn't decrease much three months after treating the infested homes with heat and insecticides.»

Public health measures in Africa such as insecticide - treated bed nets and insecticide - spraying have helped reduce the numbers of malaria cases since 2000, but many mosquitoes have evolved resistance to insecticides.

The individual populations were regularly treated with the insecticide Chlorpyrifos and also confronted with different living conditions.

The thousand study participants also received supporting interventions including insecticide - treated bed nets to avoid malaria infection and a safe water system.

One recent example is the development of seeds treated with insecticides to discourage early damage by crop pests.

«We know that giving insecticide - treated bed nets to a household will protect young children, reducing their susceptibility by 50 percent and their overall chances of dying by 16 to 17 percent.

It suggests that the use of insecticide - treated nets might continue to reduce malaria even in areas where the mosquitoes have become resistant.

Insecticide - treated nets may still help prevent malaria despite mosquitoes developing resistance, according to a new study published in Parasites & Vectors.

Mather developed a similar «drive through» trap in 1987 called Damminix, which allows mice to disperse cotton balls treated with tick insecticide to their nests.

Several approaches may be needed, such as introducing fly - parasitizing wasps, removing chicks from nests for hand - rearing, raising sterile male flies to mate with females so they can't lay eggs in finch nests, and using insecticides, including placing pesticide - treated cotton balls where birds can collect them to self - fumigate their nests.

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.

WHO recommends that so - called long - lasting insecticide - treated nets be replaced after 3 years.

One group received enough bed nets to cover every sleeping space, and the nets were treated with the insecticide permethrin over the next 2 years.

Insecticide - treated bed nets were provided at enrollment, as well as malaria treatment when indicated.

For ethical reasons, we ensured that all participants were not denied existing malaria prevention (insecticide - treated bed nets) or malaria treatment.

In 20 villages, houses are being equipped with eave tubes, while villagers receive insecticide - treated bed nets; 20 other villages get only bed nets.

The current study — conducted in three neighborhoods of Merida, Mexico — measured the efficacy of indoor residual spraying against adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in houses treated with either deltamethrin (to which the local mosquitoes expressed a high degree of resistance) or bendiocarb (another insecticide to which the mosquitoes were fully susceptible), as compared to untreated control houses.

The widespread use of insecticide - treated bed nets eventually led to a rise in resistance to pyretheroids by the Anopheles mosquito.

Similar initial concerns about insecticide - treated nets proved unfounded, with no evidence of diversion to nearby non-users observed in real field experiments1.

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.

«Furthermore, if the intervention providing personal protection has killing capabilities such as walls sprayed, or nets treated with insecticides, the chances of mosquito survival to an age at which a previously - ingested parasite is infective, or a virus has reached a sufficient level of viremia to be transmissible, becomes yet slimmer because mosquitoes typically feed every 2 to 3 days, making at least one encounter with a protected person highly probable during the pathogen's incubation period.

Preventing childhood malaria in Africa by protecting adults from mosquitoes with insecticide - treated nets.

Lengeler C. Insecticide - treated bed nets and curtains for preventing malaria.

Her dissertation, «Nothing but Nets: The History of Insecticide - Treated Nets in Africa, 1980s - Present,» examines how and why insecticide - treated bed nets became a cornerstone of malaria control in the 21st century, as well as the role of African scientists, health workers, health officials, and populations played in the construction of this biomedical, global health Insecticide - Treated Nets in Africa, 1980s - Present,» examines how and why insecticide - treated bed nets became a cornerstone of malaria control in the 21st century, as well as the role of African scientists, health workers, health officials, and populations played in the construction of this biomedical, global health techTreated Nets in Africa, 1980s - Present,» examines how and why insecticide - treated bed nets became a cornerstone of malaria control in the 21st century, as well as the role of African scientists, health workers, health officials, and populations played in the construction of this biomedical, global health insecticide - treated bed nets became a cornerstone of malaria control in the 21st century, as well as the role of African scientists, health workers, health officials, and populations played in the construction of this biomedical, global health techtreated bed nets became a cornerstone of malaria control in the 21st century, as well as the role of African scientists, health workers, health officials, and populations played in the construction of this biomedical, global health technology.

Choose insecticides that are more specific in the types of invertebrates they kill, such as Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that kills only caterpillars that consume treated foliage.

The Against Malaria Foundation purchases nets treated with insecticide and delivers them throughout the developing world.

In fact, while cotton only makes up 3 % of the total farmed land area, it accounts for 25 % of the insecticides and 10 % of the pesticides used worldwide, making it one of the most chemically treated crops.