Nitisinone, usually prescribed for metabolic disorders, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood. Researchers have explored a new approach to combat malaria using nitisinone, a drug ...

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