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Harvard researchers have discovered a new way to stop malaria transmission—by giving mosquitoes malaria drugs that kill the parasite inside them.
In a pioneering study, US scientists have identified a pair of drugs that can rid mosquitoes of the malaria parasite, offering a new front in the global fight against the disease that kills nearly 600,000 people annually, mostly children.
Traditionally, malaria prevention has focused on killing mosquitoes with insecticides, particularly via bed nets. But growing resistance to insecticides has weakened this approach. Now, researchers at Harvard University have shown that applying anti-malaria drugs to mosquito contact surfaces—such as bed nets—can successfully eliminate the parasite within the insect without needing to kill it.
Dr Alexandra Probst, lead researcher, said, “We haven’t really tried to kill the parasite inside the mosquito before—only the mosquito itself. But that approach is no longer cutting it.”
The drugs, when absorbed through the mosquitoes’ legs, were found to kill 100% of the parasites. Crucially, even if a mosquito survives contact with a drug-coated net, it will no longer be able to spread malaria.
Since each infected mosquito carries far fewer parasites than a human host, the likelihood of the parasite developing drug resistance is also reduced, the team said.
The treatment’s effectiveness has been demonstrated in laboratory settings, and field trials in Ethiopia are planned. If successful, dual-action bed nets coated with both insecticides and anti-malaria drugs could be widely deployed in the next six years.
Researchers hope the innovation will provide a longer-lasting and more effective solution in malaria-prone regions.
According to the World Health Organization's latest World malaria report, there were an estimated 263 million cases and 597 000 malaria deaths worldwide in 2023.
AnewZ has learned that India has once again blocked Azerbaijan’s application for full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, while Pakistan’s recent decision to consider diplomatic relations with Armenia has been coordinated with Baku as part of Azerbaijan’s peace agenda.
A day of mourning has been declared in Portugal to pay respect to victims who lost their lives in the Lisbon Funicular crash which happened on Wednesday evening.
A Polish Air Force pilot was killed on Thursday when an F-16 fighter jet crashed during a training flight ahead of the 2025 Radom International Air Show.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
Australian authorities have reaffirmed that paracetamol is safe for pregnant women, rejecting U.S. claims that it raises the risk of autism in babies.
The United Nations agency focusing on the HIV/AIDS pandemic could close by the end of next year as the U.N. restructures in the face of a funding crisis, according to a U.N. document published online
The World Health Organization has started vaccinating frontline health workers and contacts of Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kasai province, where the virus outbreak has already claimed 16 lives.
Japan has reached a record 99,763 centenarians as of September 1, with women accounting for roughly 88 percent, marking the 55th consecutive year the country has hit this milestone.
The World Health Organization has added GLP-1 drugs to treat diabetes to its essential medicines list, alongside treatments for cystic fibrosis and cancer, and said it hopes this will improve global access to the costly drugs.
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