Insecticide Treated Bed Nets: No Protection From Sandfly-Borne Visceral Leishmaniasis

Published: Feb. 16, 2010, 1:05 a.m.

b'Albert Picado of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on his goups findings presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 58th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, that insecticide-treated bed-nets did not prevent infection with leishmania donovani parasites\\u2014cause of the deadly visceral leishmaniasis\\u2014transmitted by the bite of the sandfly. He told Peter Goodwin about the study in India and Nepal in which they compared villages with and without bednets.'