If only I had chickens around, I might not have gotten malaria

Almost half a million people die of malaria every year. The smell of live chicken could repel malaria-carrying mosquitoes, researchers have found.

When researchers studied mosquitoes in three Ethiopian villages, they found only one female mosquito had chicken blood in her, despite there being plenty of chickens around. James Gathany photo courtesy of CDC

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 17, 2016

LONDON, U.K.—I had malaria once, and it was extremely unpleasant. I had been working in Yemen, but I actually contracted it when I was flying home. The flight made a stop in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, and the plane was parked out on the runway while waiting to pick up passengers, right on the edge of...

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