According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , malaria is a mosquito-born disease caused by a parasite. While roughly less than 2,000 cases are diagnosed annually in the US, it’s a terrible disease in areas like sub-Saharan Africa.

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Globally according to the WHO there are over 217 million malaria cases and 435,000 deaths. Malaria eradication programs usually focus on eliminating the small puddles of water that the mosquitos use to breed or by using an insecticide to kill larvae or mosquitos. An issue with the latter approach is that in some cases mosquito populations may become resistant to certain pesticides. One of the standard methods used to assess resistance in adult mosquito populations is the World Health Organization insecticide susceptibility test (WHO bioassay). Researchers Sean Tomlinson, Henrietta C. Yates, Ambrose Oruni, Harun Njoroge, David Weetman, Martin J. Donnelly, and Arjen E Van’t Hof published a […]

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