A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

Every year, the fruit flies and mosquitoes return to my kitchen, drawn to the illicit aroma of unlidded pasta sauce and the ...

Interestingly, in 2016 a pair of researchers in Brazil named Marcos Sterkel and Pedro Oliveira discovered that blood-feeding insects, such as fleas, flies, and mosquitoes have evolved the ability ...

Nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood and may become a new tool to fight malaria ...

Malaria breakthrough as scientists find drug makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes - Researchers say the drug is able to ...

Nitisinone was shown to last longer than ivermectin in the human bloodstream, and was able to kill not only mosquitoes of all ages -- including the older ones that are most likely to transmit malaria ...

One such method involves the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin. When mosquitoes consume blood that contains ivermectin, it reduces their lifespan and contributes to a decrease in malaria ...

One of these includes the antiparasitic medication ivermectin. When mosquitoes ingest blood containing ivermectin, it shortens the insect's lifespan and helps decrease the spread of malaria.

Scientists may have found a solution to stop the spread of malaria: poisoning mosquitoes with human blood. New research suggests that the mosquito-borne malady can be curbed by getting the insects ...