[Press release] Combining insecticide spraying and bed nets no more protective against malaria than nets alone — ScienceDaily
From the 5 December 2014 Lancet press release
The combined use of spraying insecticide inside homes and insecticide-treated bed nets is no better at protecting children against malaria than using bed nets alone, a study in The Gambia suggests. The findings, published in The Lancet, should encourage donors to invest their limited resources in additional bed nets, the more cost-effective solution to tackling malaria*.
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