Protection from mosquito bites

(i) Construction of houses on high ground.
(ii) Mosquito net should be used while sleeping.
(iii) Mosquito nets should be used on the doors, windows and ventilates of the house.
(iv) Repellents or creams should be used on exposed parts of the body.
(v) The house should be fumigated in the evening to repel mosquitoes.
(vi) Malaria patients should be kept under mosquito nets.
(vii) Use of mosquito coils, aerosols and incense.
(viii) Pyrethroids should be used on mosquito nets and bedding.

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