Promising Mosquito Repellent Announced

In many regions of the world, mosquitoes are a seasonal pest. In other regions, they carry serious diseases like malaria. The World Health Organization estimates that almost 630,000 people died of malaria-related causes in 2012, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa.  Now, a group of U.S.-based scientists is working to develop a more effective and less expensive mosquito repellent than currently in use.     The research, at the University of California Riverside, is based on...

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