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Scientist Calls for 'Antimalarials for Mosquitoes' to Fight Killer Disease


Scientist Calls for 'Antimalarials for Mosquitoes' to Fight Killer Disease
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A British scientist is proposing a new approach to fighting the spread of malaria, a treatable mosquito-borne disease that kills hundreds of thousands each year, the vast majority of them young children in Africa. As Faith Lapidus reports, he is developing an antimalarial drug designed not for humans, but for mosquitoes.

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