Target mosquito parasites with drugs to cut malaria, study says

Mosquitoes should be given malaria drugs to clear their infection so they can no longer spread the disease, say US researchers.Malaria parasites, which kill nearly 600,000 people a year, mostly children, are spread by female mosquitoes when they drink blood.Current efforts aim to kill mosquitoes with insecticide rather than curing them of malaria.But a team at Harvard University has found a pair of drugs which…