Malaria day

BbP hosted awareness events in all their Library Learning Centres throughout PNG, emphasizing the importance of early awareness in preventing the disease which has significantly impacted the health of millions in the region.

The scientists, from Ethiopia and Sweden, said that the mosquitoes tend to avoid chickens and other birds, and even avoided a volunteer who slept under a bed net with a live caged chicken nearby, BBC News reported.

The research, published in the Malaria Journal, found that the mosquitoes, which use their sense of smell to locate an animal to bite, are turned off by something in a chicken’s odor, BBC News reported.

“While the outcome of the departments control efforts are encouraging and commendable, there is still a lot more work to be done,” Health Secretary Pascoe Kase said.

The world will mark World Malaria Day today, April 25, with the theme: “End malaria for good”, the secretary stated.