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Chicken odour ‘prevents malaria’ – Scientists
« on: July 22, 2016, 01:00:26 pm »
Chicken odour ‘prevents malaria’ – Scientists

The smell from a live chicken could help protect against malaria, researchers have found. Ethiopian and Swedish scientists discovered that malarial mosquitoes tend to avoid chickens and other birds. The experiments, conducted in western Ethiopia, included suspending a live chicken in a cage near a volunteer sleeping under a bed net. Last year malaria killed […]
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