That toolbox keeps changing as the malaria parasites and the mosquitoes that harbor them become resistant to new drugs and insecticides. "The only way you are going to control malaria and eliminate it is by a very large toolbox that is targeting the parasite in many different ways." "I'm not claiming this is a silver bullet," added his colleague Brian Foy from Colorado State University. Early results are promising, he said in villages blanketed with ivermectin, fewer kids are coming down with malaria.ĭabire conceded that it's sort of a backdoor way to attack the disease.
So now they're trying to give the deworming medicine continuously during the rainy (heavy malaria) season. He's working on a study that uses ivermectin, a drug usually used to treat roundworm parasites, to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes.ĭabire and his colleagues noticed that right after mass deworming programs in villages, mosquitoes were dropping dead.
"In West Africa, we have a lot of problems with mosquito resistance to insecticide," Dabire said. Credit: Ben de la Cruz and Jason Beaubien
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