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Swiss company Vestergaard changed the coating on its malaria bed nets — and now malaria cases are soaring.
The new coating was cheaper, and much less effective. Did Vestergaard disclose the change to malaria control organizations, at least? No.
“This is a huge embarrassment,” [Tim] Freeman said. [He is a program manager for an organization attempting to eliminate malaria.] “They’ve been distributing, for 10 years, lower quality nets than in the past. No one wants to admit that.”
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