Edible fish, Nile telapia, can fight mosquitoes carrying malaria

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Edible fish, Nile telapia, can fight mosquitoes carrying malaria [1]

New research says the Nile tilapia can fight mosquitoes carrying malaria. The edible fish, Oreochromis niloticus, is commonly farmed and consumed in Africa's Kenyan highlands. Though larva-eating fish have been used for over a century in mosquito control, the Nile tilapia has not been tested for widescale use in such measures.

When researchers introduced it to several abandoned fishponds, they found that within 15 weeks, more than 94 per cent of the larvae

Publication Date:

14/09/2007

Source: Down to Earth [2]

Tags:

Fish [3], Malaria [4], Vector Control [5], Research [6], Kenya [7]

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