Malaria is endemic in the Chad republic (Central Africa) affecting >95% of the overall population and is the main cause of morbidity and mortality (Kerah-Hinzoumbe et al., 2009). Gravid or blood fed ...

Scientists have conducted new study on pyrethroid, among the most widely used insecticides in the world for public health control of vector-borne illnesses, including West Nile virus. The findings of ...

Dr Shaun Presow, Hazardous Substances Reassessments Manager, says the EPA is proposing to ban the insecticides because they are extremely toxic to the aquatic environment and there is no known use in ...

A novel class of bed net that kills mosquitoes resistant to traditional insecticides by making them unable to move or fly, significantly reduces malaria infection in children, according to new ...

Researchers at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have identified a previously unknown mechanism by which mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite can become resistant to the insecticide that ...

Environmental exposure to pyrethroid insecticides was associated with an increased risk for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in an observational study of a nationally representative ...

In an invited Commentary just published in JAMA Internal Medicine, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health professors Drs. Steven Stellman and Jeanne Mager Stellman offer their perspective on results ...

A new study from the University of Iowa suggests that people who have higher levels of a chemical in their body that indicates exposure to commonly used insecticides die of cardiovascular disease at a ...

WASHINGTON— Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed today to weaken protections for 23 pyrethroids, a class of insecticides linked to autism, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and known to ...