By sleeping under chemically treated mosquito nets, children cut their risk of death almost in half, researchers in Kenya report. Their study, which included thousands of young children, bolsters the case that increased use of insecticide-coated netting can prevent malaria.
Treated nets repel mosquitoes that transmit malaria and fend off flies that carry other diseases.
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