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New Net Offers Protection From Mosquito Bites

Researchers have found that a new kind of mosquito net substantially increases protection against malaria-carrying insects.

The discovery was made by a team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in a two-year study involving more than 15,000 children in Tanzania.

Scientists found that nets incorporating a chemical called piperonyl butoxide blocked the natural defences of mosquitoes against standard insecticides, reducing malaria cases by more than a third.

The World Health Organization is now recommending the use of the new nets.

Malaria causes well over 400,000 deaths a year, nearly all of them children under five in sub-Saharan Africa.

-BBC

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