What if human blood were toxic to mosquitoes? A drug can make it so

A certain type of medicine makes human blood dangerous to life - for mosquitoes. The blood becomes so toxic that mosquitoes die if they suck it. This raises hope for the treatment of malaria.

What if human blood were toxic to mosquitoes? A drug can make it so

A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests. A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

It kills insects without any harmful side effects.

Even low doses of the drug nitisinone are lethal to malaria-carrying mosquitoes. The first results of the scientists' research are promising, but according to experts, there is no golden mean against the most dangerous parasitic disease.