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JULY 13,
2017
'BASF
unveils new mosquito net in battle against malaria
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FRANKFURT
(Reuters) - A new mosquito net made by German chemicals company BASF has been
given an interim recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO),
containing a new class of insecticide that the company hopes will aid the fight
against malaria.
Death rates
from malaria have dropped by 60 percent since 2000, according to the WHO, but
attempts to end one of the world's deadliest diseases - which kills around
430,000 people a year - are under threat as mosquitoes become increasingly
resistant to measures such as insecticide-treated bed nets and anti-malarial
drugs.
BASF's new
net is based on chlorfenapyr, which has been used in agriculture and urban pest
control for over two decades, but BASF reworked it to make it effective on
mosquito nets and meet targets for the public health market.
It said the
net will provide protection for at least three years or 20 washes.
The new
Interceptor G2 insecticide-treated net is expected to be available to health
ministries and aid organizations from towards the end of this year, BASF said.
A WHO
spokesman said the Geneva-based organization's interim recommendation meant it
still had to evaluate the net's public health impact and it was requesting more
data from the chemicals company.
BASF is also
waiting for the WHO to evaluate another chlorfenapyr product, an indoor spray
for walls and ceilings called Sylando 240SC.
"This
development breakthrough strengthens my personal belief that we really can be
the generation to end malaria for good," Egon Weinmueller, head of BASF's
public health business, said.
Reporting by
Patricia Weiss. Additional reporting by Tom Miles.; Writing by Victoria Bryan
and Andreas Cremer.; Editing by Maria Sheahan and Mark Potter''
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