Do you know scientists have made a
shocking discovery that chickens prevent malaria? See the interesting
details of the research.
A team of Ethiopian scientists have discovered that the smell of chicken drives away mosquitoes.
According to an AFP report, a team of
insect experts led by Professor Habte Tekie at the University of Addis
Ababa began their investigation after noticing that mosquitoes bite
humans and other animals but stay away from chickens.
“We went into the chemical basis
involved in repelling malaria mosquitoes by odours emanating from the
chickens… The results show that compounds from chicken have very good
potential as repellent,” Tekie told AFP.
It was discovered that mosquitoes see chickens as a predator, so seek to avoid them, he said.
According to tests carried out in three
villages in western Ethiopia, it was discovered that some families that
slept beneath a chicken in a cage overnight were mosquito-free in the
morning, while homes without indoor poultry were not.
The obvious challenges of sleeping with a
bird suspended over the bed were addressed in a follow-up experiment in
which villagers were supplied with vials of chicken extract. The
results were similar.
The findings, recently published in the
medical publication Malaria Journal, will be used in a new collaboration
with Swedish scientists to develop an odourless repellent.
“This repellent will be safe for
human use, (with) no residues contaminating soil or water or poisoning
people and it can easily be integrated into malaria control
operations,” Tekie said.
The research comes handy as malaria threatens 60 per cent of the population of Ethiopia, a nation of almost 100 million people.
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