Insecticide-treated nets prove to be best bet
Officer-in-charge at the National Institute of Malaria Research-Goa Dr Ashwani Kumar and Dr Hemant Kumar are upbeat over their experiments with bed nets treated with deltamethrine that have shown excellent results in controlling malaria. Says Dr Ashwani Kumar, "A total of 18 sites were taken up in the experiments out of which at nine places bed nets treated with deltamethrine were distributed. At the nine sites malaria cases have shown a decline, while at the other nine locations where no nets were given the situation has not seen much difference.'