Find an anti-malaria drug that can turn human blood into toxins with mosquitoes

Scientists have found an oral drug capable of turning human blood into a toxin for mosquitoes and even killing mosquitoes. This is considered a breakthrough invention in preventing malaria, the disease every year kills about half a million people around the world.

According to a reporter in Africa, a research group led by scientists from Liverpool University of Tropical Medicine (UK) announced that Ivermectin has been successfully tested, oral medicine not only has the ability to make mosquitoes stay away, but also turn human blood into a toxin for this kind of insect.

This medicine will turn human blood into a toxin for mosquitoes.

Previously, scientists tested the drug on 139 volunteers in Kenya - a country with 6 million new cases each year. Results showed that after taking Ivermectin, the toxin to mosquitoes will remain in the blood of volunteers for 28 days.

In addition, the scientists locked the mosquitoes into the same amount of blood taken from the volunteers who took Ivermectin. The results also showed that 97% of mosquitoes died within two weeks after taking this test blood.

According to the prestigious medical journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, Ivermectin belongs to the antihelmintics group. This is a group of drugs that work in a crippling manner and then kill the parasite.

Scientists hope that the new drug will help Africa, especially countries in the southern Sahara desert, fight malaria because it is the place that accounts for 90% of malaria patients and 92%. deaths from this disease worldwide.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the mosquitoes that spread annually make about 750,000 deaths worldwide, most of them children. Of these, about 430,000 people die from malaria-related symptoms.