Mosquito nets do not work everytime, researchers find

Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - 10:32 in Biology & Nature

Long-lasting insecticidal nets have yielded an important breakthrough in malaria prevention, but this does not automatically mean they always work against diseases transmitted by insect bites. Against the transmission of kala-azar disease in India and Nepal, they did not have an effect, researchers have found.

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