Nitisinone, a drug that is already used to treat two genetic diseases, could be repurposed to control the spread of malaria, ...

In a nutshell A rare disease drug may help fight malaria. Nitisinone, a medication approved for rare genetic conditions, killed malaria-carrying mosquitoes after they fed on treated human blood — ...

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The researchers gave female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, which transmit malaria, blood samples obtained from three individuals who regularly take nitisinone. The mosquitoes died within 12 hours.