Babies take a lesson from soldiers in the war against malaria
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Babies may soon join soldiers in the fight to ward off malaria.
For years, the U.S. military has treated uniforms with insecticide to repel mosquitoes and the malaria they can transmit. Ross Boyce used to wear one before becoming an infectious disease physician and malaria researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He wondered if babies could get similar pr
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