Nigeria: Palm wine, potential mosquito repellant this rainy season?

Globally, Aedes mosquitoes cause ill health and deaths from dengue, yellow fever, and other arboviral infections. There is no effective vaccine for Aedes-transmitted diseases, so mosquito control remains the mainstay for their control. Semiochemicals play a significant role in modulating insect behaviour, so they are used to lure mosquitoes to their destruction or to repel them to halt infection transmission.

Now, researchers at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, have said that…