Rainy season: How poverty drives families to toxic mosquito killers

Punchng | 21-06-2026 05:55pm |

As the rainy season fuels mosquito breeding and malaria cases, many low-income families in Nigeria are turning to cheap, unregulated homemade insecticides sold for as little as N300 to protect themselves against mosquito bites, a choice that toxicologists and health experts warn could be exposing them to chemicals capable of causing breathing difficulties, birth defects,

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