Tanzania Study Reopens Debate On Targeting Mosquito Larvae To Control Malaria

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 23:21 in Biology & Nature

Targeting mosquito larval populations may be an effective intervention to help control malaria in urban situations, a new study suggests. The research has re-opened the debate on whether malaria can be controlled with larvicides, insecticides which kill mosquitoes in their water-borne larval stages of development.

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