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Scientists have a radical new plan for controlling mosquito numbers and fighting malaria: lacing human blood with a drug that ...

While this helps patients with metabolic disorders, it disrupts digestion in mosquitoes that drink the blood of medicated ... Ivermectin has long been the go-to mosquito-killing drug, but it ...

New research suggests that the mosquito-borne malady can be curbed ... it disrupts digestion in mosquitoes that drink the blood of medicated individuals — ultimately killing them," said ...

When mosquitoes drink blood that contains nitisinone ... Personal protective measures include wearing covering clothes, the use of mosquito repellent and the use of bed nets or window and door ...

When mosquitoes drink blood that contains nitisinone ... of nitisinone on female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the primary mosquito species responsible for spreading malaria in many African ...

This particular female glows green due to a diet containing fluorescein, which appears green under ultraviolet light and reveals the hemolymph system of the mosquito. It’s important to note that ...

A drug for a rare disease makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes and could help in the fight against malaria, researchers have found. Several methods are currently used to reduce mosquito numbers ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new study found that an already-existing drug could, when taken by humans, turn blood into mosquito poison that kills the bugs within hours. The study, recently published in ...

A new study by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has revealed that the blood of people who have taken nitisinone, a drug used to treat hypertyrosinemia, acts as a 'mosquito-killing poison.' ...

You don’t want a greasy, sticky mosquito repellent. In the past, we’ve encountered sprays that are so sticky, mosquitoes have actually stuck to our arm, which we presume made their blood ...