Meant to Keep Malaria Out, Mosquito Nets Are Used to Haul Fish In

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Author/contributor
Title
Meant to Keep Malaria Out, Mosquito Nets Are Used to Haul Fish In
Abstract
Nets like his are widely considered a magic bullet against malaria — one of the cheapest and most effective ways to stop a disease that kills at least half a million Africans each year. But Mr. Ndefi and countless others are not using their mosquito nets as global health experts have intended. Nobody in his hut, including his seven children, sleeps under a net at night. Instead, Mr. Ndefi has taken his family’s supply of anti-malaria nets and sewn them together into a gigantic sieve that he uses to drag the bottom of the swamp ponds, sweeping up all sorts of life: baby catfish, banded tilapia, tiny mouthbrooders, orange fish eggs, water bugs and the occasional green frog
Publication
The New York Times
Place
BANGWEULU WETLANDS, Zambia
Date
JAN. 24, 2015
Section
AFRICA
Citation
Gettleman, J. (2015, January 24). Meant to Keep Malaria Out, Mosquito Nets Are Used to Haul Fish In. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/world/africa/mosquito-nets-for-malaria-spawn-new-epidemic-overfishing.html?_r=1