The insecticide-treated bed nets and insecticide sprays that were so effective in preventing mosquito bites -- and therefore malaria -- are increasingly viewed as the causes of household pest resurgence after pests became resistant to pesticides, according to a new article.
For decades, insecticide-treated bed nets and indoor insecticide spraying regimens have been important -- and widely successful -- treatments against mosquitoes that transmit malaria, a dangerous global disease. Yet these treatments also -- for a time -- suppressed undesirable household insects like bed bugs, cockroaches and flies.
"These insecticide-treated bed nets were not intended to kill household pests like bed bugs, but they were really good at it," said Chris Hayes, an NC State Ph.D. student and co-corresponding author of a paper describing the work."It's what people really liked, but the insecticides are not working as effectively on household pests anymore."
The researchers add that other factors -- famine, war, the rural/city divide, and population displacement, for example -- also could contribute to rising rates of malaria. Hayes said a recent paper -- published after this NC State review was concluded -- showed that people blamed the presence of bed bugs on bed nets.The researchers say that all hope is not lost, though.
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