Cuban doctors now brought in to kill stubborn mosquito

Ten vector control experts from Cuba are on the way. [File, Standard]

Malaria cases have been on the rise despite decades of battle to decimate the killer disease. Mosquito and parasite have mastered new tricks against available control technologies, including changing meal times, feeding on beef when humans go under bed nets and waylaying night workers such as twilight girls, boda boda riders, revelers and watchmen.

When control campaigns, for example at the Coast put babies under bed nets, mosquitoes had swiftly turned to the older and less protected school-age children. “Suddenly more school age children than infants were reporting to the hospital with malaria,” says Aisha, a health worker at the Coast General Hospital.