Online Mapping System Helps Fight Malaria By Tracking Mosquito Resistance To Insecticides Used To Prevent Malaria

Aggregrated "IR Mapper" database provides global direction on insecticide resistance management The first online mapping tool to track insecticide resistance in mosquitoes that cause malaria was launched today. The interactive website, called IR Mapper, identifies locations in more than 50 malaria-endemic countries where mosquitoes have developed resistance to the insecticides used in bed nets and indoor residual sprays. IR Mapper incorporates the just-released World Health Organization (WHO) revised criteria for reporting insecticide resistance which is designed to detect it earlier... via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..