The team conducted experiments to determine the dosage of nitisinone required to kill mosquitoes, and found that a daily dose of 2 mg of nitisinone was enough to make human blood mosquito-killing.

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This prevents the mosquitoes from properly digesting the blood, causing them to quickly die. The researchers analyzed the nitisinone dosing concentrations needed for killing mosquitoes ...