London (reuters) - modernizing mud huts and other traditional housing could significantly cut the risk of malaria for people living in some of the highest risk areas of Africa, Asia and South America, according to new research.
scientists who studied the impact of types of housing on peoples' risk of infection with the mosquito-born disease found that residents of modern homes were 47 percent lass likely to be infected than people living in traditional houses.
People in modern houses, eguipped with closed eaves, ceiling, screened door and windows, were also 45 to 65 percent lass likely to have clinical malaria, which brings high fever with infaction, the researchers found