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Thu August 18, 2011
Humanosphere

Insecticide-resistant mosquitoes challenging Gates malaria efforts

Credit Mike Urban
A child with cerebral malaria.

The World Health Organization has long been worried over reports that mosquitoes were increasingly resistant to chemical-treated bed nets, a mainstay in the Gates Foundation-led, worldwide campaign against malaria.

Now, a study from Senegal raises doubts over Gates’ plant to beat malaria, blaming mosquitoes’ growing resistance to insecticide.

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