Since the 1990s, bed nets with insecticides have been an invaluable tool for malaria prevention, wrote Gretchen Vogel with Science.org on February 2, 2022.
While young children who sleep under these nets are far less likely to die of the disease, some scientists have worried this might increase the risk of contracting malaria later in life by preventing the development of natural immunity.
Now, an ambitious new study’s finding allays those fears.
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