Can malaria be prevented?
Can malaria be prevented? Yes it can, Infection is easily preventable with something as simple as an insecticide-treated bed-net wrapped around a bed to prevent mosquito bites. Since malaria-infected mosquitoes feed between dusk and dawn, a properly used insecticidal net can cut the risk of infection by about 50%. Bed net programs alone will save tens of thousands of lives in Africa, most of them children. In addition, programs that include indoor spraying of homes with insecticides are effective as well. After the mosquito bites a human, it will go land on a wall to rest. If the wall is sprayed, it dies, preventing it from carrying any malarial blood it has picked up to another human.
