A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

Discover nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases that could also combat mosquitoes and their transmission of malaria.

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Nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood and may become a new tool to fight malaria ...

Nitisinone, a drug for genetic disorders, could help control malaria by making human blood toxic to mosquitoes. Anopheles ...