Fish can fight malaria mosquitoes

Minh Hanh

Kenyan researchers were surprised to use a small fish as a weapon to combat the rapid spread of malaria. Nile tilapia is the name of a fish commonly found on Kenyan dining tables, which have been released into ponds and lakes to feed on the larvae of the two main mosquitoes that cause malaria.

Nile tilapia fish (Photo: VOVnews)

Kenya's public health agency said the fish could kill mosquitoes as well as some other harmful insects. The fact that Nile tilapia likes to eat mosquitoes has been known since 1917, but this is the first time information about their use to limit the number of mosquito published details.

Malaria, caused by malaria, a single-celled parasite, is considered a local disease that usually occurs in Asia, Africa and Central and South America. This parasite enters the human body through a mosquito bite.

Each year it causes about 300 million people to get sick and 1 million of them die worldwide. The central part of the Sahara (Africa) accounts for 90% of this, where a child dies from malaria every 30 seconds.