The Unintended Consequences of Success Against Malaria
July 24, 2024
July 24, 2024
RALEIGH, North Carolina, July 24 (TNSres) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release:
For decades, insecticide-treated bed nets and indoor insecticide spraying regimens have been important - and widely successful - treatments against mosquitoes that transmit malaria, a dangerous global disease. Yet these treatments also - for a time - suppressed undesirable household insects like bed bugs, cockroaches and flies.
Now, a new North Carolina State . . .
For decades, insecticide-treated bed nets and indoor insecticide spraying regimens have been important - and widely successful - treatments against mosquitoes that transmit malaria, a dangerous global disease. Yet these treatments also - for a time - suppressed undesirable household insects like bed bugs, cockroaches and flies.
Now, a new North Carolina State . . .