Once Covid-19 has been adequately tamed with stiff arms and strong hearts, attention will return to travel, and for so many an all-too-familiar theme has…
Mosquito net
The Ugandan Ministry of Health has completed an eight-month nationwide distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets as part of a renewed fight against malaria.
Health ministry spokesman Emmanuel…
KAMPALA, March 27 (Xinhua). The Ugandan Ministry of Health has completed an eight-month nationwide distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets as part of a renewed fight against malaria.
Health ministry spokesman Emmanuel…
A female Asian tiger mosquito.A Dutch inventor found a cheap and effective way to fight malaria by putting insecticide-doused ventilation grilles in the walls of houses.A report describing a two-year test run of the grids was published in…
The yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) is a major vector of deadly diseases such as dengue, chikungunya, and the Zika virus, which cause hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide each year. Because Ae. Aegypti prefers to bite…
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The spread of mosquitos in the community has become such a nuisance and likely threat that City Health Commissioner Dr. Bailey has launched an extermination campaign.
In this campaign he called on all citizens to arm themselves, to…
BIDIBIDI REFUGEE SET, WEST NILE, UGANDA - 2017/03/14: Patients lie under mosquito nets in a health facility in the Bidibidi refugee settlement, which is home to more than 270,000 people who have fled South Sudan. (Photo by Julian…
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