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New bed nets that 'ground' mosquitoes could boost malaria fight

Anopheles mosquitoes are seen in a net placed in a rice field during a test near Zanzibar City, Tanzania, October 30, 2019. [Reuters]

Bed nets treated with a new kind of insecticide cut malaria cases in children by almost half in a large trial in Tanzania, according to a study in The Lancet, raising hopes of a new weapon in the fight against the age-old killer.

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