Thursday, August 19, 2010

Campaign to finish sale of electronic butterfly repellents

Dr. Bart Knols, editor of the advocacy website MalariaWorld, detected that electronic repellents were being sole by KLM on a new moody he made. The broadside claimed that the "device emits a low magnitude receptive to advice that is intolerable to mosquitoes" and Knols, meaningful that there is justification that these receptive to advice emitting inclination don"t work and could give travellers the fake sense that they were stable opposite mosquitoes and in spin malaria, took action.

Armed with the Cochrane Systematic Review, constructed by the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group and initial published in 2007, that obviously demonstrates that electronic repellents do not work, Knols approached KLM with the successive certain outcome that the airline will repel these electronic repellents from sale from Mar 2010 onwards. Knols has given approached British Airways and Singapore Airlines who additionally sell the electronic repellents and is watchful for a response.

The Cochrane examination rigorously examines all relevant, arguable research, and these reviews are recognized as being authoritative, state-of-the-art summaries.

These electronic repellents should not be manufactured, advertised or used to forestall butterfly bites and malaria, pronounced co-author of the examination Professor Paul Garner. Along with Dr. Ali Enayati from the Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences and Professor Hemingway Director of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, they delicately analysed 10 studies and found there was positively no interpretation to await their use. Professor Garner went on to contend These inclination interest to business but they simply don"t work. They don"t repel mosquitoes and they don"t forestall people removing bitten.

To review Bart Knols" blog on MalariaWorld and follow this story, see: http://www.malariaworld.org/blog/klm-airline-acts-responsibly

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