A team of researchers have discovered a new drug that could make our blood kill the mosquito. Sounds bizarre but it is right. The drug named Ivermectic is widely used in the treatment of other tropical diseases, reportedly. Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a study where people were dosed with Ivermectin to make them deadly targets for the mosquitoes that transmit Malaria.The study showed that adding high doses of ivermectin to the antimalarial dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) had a major and prolonged effect on mosquito mortality, reportedly.
According to a report in Science Daily, the research team evaluated doses that were predicted to give drug levels that were 2 times and 4 times higher than the standard dose. They combined it with the Malaria drug DP which is routinely used in mass drug administration in many Malaria-endemic countries. They found that three-day courses of…
