Zoom imageNets impregnated with an active substance from Bayer CropScience provide effective protection against malaria-transmitting mosquitoes.
Bayer CropScience is supporting the worldwide battle against malaria with innovative solutions. The company’s researchers have developed enhanced mosquito nets made of polypropylene fibers into which the WHO-recommended active ingredient deltamethrin is directly embedded. The nets are also longer-lasting than those currently available on the market, and were recently submitted to the WHO for evaluation. The company plans to market them under the brand name LifeNet™ in the coming years. In addition, Bayer CropScience is working together with the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) based in Liverpool, United Kingdom, on a joint project devoted to searching for new insecticidal active ingredients that are effective against mosquitoes and other disease-transmitting insects.
Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) expect the areas in which the Anopheles mosquito is endemic and where malaria is therefore prevalent to grow as a result of increasing global warming. Cases of malaria will then occur in regions in which the disease was previously never found. The WHO estimates that some 3.3 billion people worldwide – half the world’s population – are at risk of infection.