people in modern hoses, equipped wit closed, ceiling, screened doors and windows, were also 45 to 64 percent less likely to have clinical malaria which brings a high fever with infected than researchers found.
"Improved housing has huge potential to reduce malaria transmission around the globe and to keep malaria at bay where we have eliminated it," said Steve Lindsay, a professor from Durham university in northern E
Lindsay added that since many of the world's major vector-borne diseases, such as dengue, leishmaniasis. chagas disease and lymphatic filariasis, are transmitter indoors, more modern and enclosed housing would also offer vital protection against several other dangerous infections.
malaria kill 600000 people a year, according to the world health organization, and the vast majority of those deaths are among babies and children in sub-saharan Africa.
most deaths are caused by the plasmodium falciparum form of malaria, but te disease is also found across Asia and south america, where a less deadly but more persistent strain know as plasmodium vivax is common.
for their study, publisbed on Tuesday in the malaria Journal, Lindsay and co-researcher Lucy Tusting of london school of Hygiene&Tropical Medicine reviewed 90 studies comparing malaria cases in modern houses with cases in traditional houses- built with mud,stone bamboo ro wood wall; thatched mud or wood roofs; and earth or wood floors.
Truting said the results showing dramatically lower mararia risks for people living in modern houses. underlined how housing improvement should bean important pillar of public health.
"This is a welcome findind at a time when we are facing increasing resistance to our most effective insecticides and grugs" she added in a statement
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