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logo 9/30/2024 8:28:14 AM     
Natural solution to malaria: Breed fish to feed on larvae 
By M.T. Yogesh Kumar IN Source: starofmysore 5/23/2022
M.T. Yogesh Kumar
 Destroying mosquito larvae with the help of fish is not only environmentally friendly but an effective measure too. Mysuru malaria control authorities are increasingly resorting to a method introduced by the British in 1908 to check the disease: Rearing fish that feed on mosquito larvae.
 

Already, water-storing fish tanks have been established in 120 places and work is on to set up 15 more such tanks at all Primary Health Centres (PHC), Community Health Centres and Government Hospitals across the district. One such tank has been set up at Nazarbad PHC.

  
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