Man installing EaveTube in house (IMAGE)
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evaluated a type of lethal house lure in which screening was added to windows and doors, and pieces of PVC pipe (typically 8-10 per house) were inserted into the eaves of the house where the wall joins the roof. These ventilation tubes were, in turn, fitted with screened inserts laced with insecticides, creating a novel targeted insecticide delivery system called the In2Care® EaveTube. The team's goal was to determine if this combination of screening plus EaveTubes (referred to as, SET) would reduce exposure to malaria mosquitoes and, thereby, reduce clinical malaria incidence over two years in children ages 6 months to 10 years living in central Côte d'Ivoire.
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Daniel Lesher, Penn State
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