Malaria - A Novel Approach

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Scientist Calls for 'Antimalarials for Mosquitoes' to Fight Killer Disease
April 22, 2018 0:41 AM

A British scientist is proposing a new approach to fighting the spread 
of malaria, a treatable mosquito-borne disease that kills hundreds of 
thousands each year, the vast majority of them young children in Africa.
 As Faith Lapidus reports, he is developing an antimalarial drug 
designed not for humans, but for mosquitoes.
Source and video:  https://www.voanews.com/a/scientist-antimalarials-for-mosquitoes-fight-killer-disease/4359304.html

[Technophobe:  It occurs to me that this could take a tougher line.  With drugs for human sufferers there has to be a high level of drug safety; so some highly effective drugs are dropped.  There are no such constraints to treating mosquitoes; who cares if a few of them die as long as the malaria treatment is absolutely effective?]

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	Scientist Calls for 'Antimalarials for Mosquitoes' to Fight Killer Disease April 22, 2018 0:41 AM A British scientist is proposing a new approach to fighting the spread of malaria, a treatable mosquito-borne disease that kills hundreds of thousands each year, the vast majority of them young children in Africa. As Faith Lapidus reports, he is developing an antimalarial drug designed not for humans, but for mosquitoes. Source and video: https://www.voanews.com/a/scientist-antimalarials-for-mosquitoes-fight-killer-disease/4359304.html [Technophobe: It occurs to me that this could take a tougher line. With drugs for human sufferers there has to be a high level of drug safety; so some highly effective drugs are dropped. There are no such constraints to treating mosquitoes; who cares if a few of them die as long as the malaria treatment is absolutely effective?]
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