SciDev.Net (London)
20 February 2009
The humble spade could be a major tool in the fight against malaria, according to a computer model that has found that simply filling in puddles of water could halt malaria-carrying mosquitoes in their tracks.
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In America, we're told all the time to eliminate standing pools of water to reduce the risk of disease spread by mosquitoes. Was an MIT, computer simulation research study needed for this?