<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/77f00934-4e21-4b7e-9e76-8f273d5a7354/51918067-A3B4-4FBF-909D-D722874BCE67/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-04-08/To_stop_malaria__let_mosquitoes_breed.html?fullstory" href="http://russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-04-08/To_stop_malaria__let_mosquitoes_breed.html?fullstory" style="font-size: 11px;">russiatoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-04-08/To_stop_malaria__let_mosquitoes_breed.html?fullstory"><H1 id="doc477788">To stop malaria, let mosquitoes breed</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-04-08/To_stop_malaria__let_mosquitoes_breed.html?fullstory"><P>Letting mosquitoes reproduce rather than killing them as fast as possible could be the key to controlling malaria epidemics, a paper suggests.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-04-08/To_stop_malaria__let_mosquitoes_breed.html?fullstory"><P>One of the biggest problems in insect control is that insecticides lose their efficiency very quickly as the insects mutate. In areas of intense spraying, having resistance is a huge benefit, and fast reproduction means the feature spreads quickly among the population. Today, most pesticides remain in use for just several years before the insects become resistant.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-04-08/To_stop_malaria__let_mosquitoes_breed.html?fullstory"><P>Science magazine <A href="http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/407/2?rss=1">reports</A> that a paper by medical entomologist Andrew Read and his colleagues from Pennsylvania State University in University Park, says this can be prevented. The team modelled a situation where mosquitoes are sprayed with a slow poison to kill only old creatures.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-04-08/To_stop_malaria__let_mosquitoes_breed.html?fullstory">But as the older mosquitos would still be zapped, they won’t be able to transmit malaria, which they start doing at the ripe old age of 10 to 14 days.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/51918067-A3B4-4FBF-909D-D722874BCE67/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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