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Article: Pregnant women twice as likely to get malaria
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 2, 2000
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PREGNANT WOMEN are twice as likely to get bitten by mosquitoes and
so run twice the risk of contracting malaria, scientists have found.
Steve Lindsay, a biologist from Durham University, led a study
which found that pregnant women are more attractive and more
vulnerable to mosquitoes.
The study, reported in the medical journal The Lancet, compared 36
pregnant and 36 non-pregnant women living in a rural area of The
Gambia, West Africa.
Each night three pregnant and three non-pregnant women slept alone
under a bed net in six identical huts. The following morning, the
researchers counted the number of mosquitoes in each hut. They then
repeated the procedure with 12 different groups.
Twice ...