mosquito net

protective covering

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A mosquito net is a protective covering designed to keep mosquitoes out. This type of netting has been in use since at least 1745. Mosquito netting refers to the material used to construct these nets.12

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…measures, such as insecticide-treated bed nets and indoor insecticide spraying. On the first World Malaria Day the secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, emphasized the need to increase the availability of bed nets, medicines, public health facilities, and trained health workers to people in areas of the world affected…
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