Malaria prevention strategies could substantially cut killer bacterial infections, study suggests
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 03:31
in Health & Medicine
Interventions targeting malaria, such as insecticide-treated bed nets, antimalarial drugs and mosquito control, could substantially reduce cases of bacteraemia, which kill hundreds of thousands of children each year in Africa and worldwide. This is the conclusion of research published today in the Lancet and funded by the Wellcome Trust.