Opensourcing the fight against mosquitoes to stop one thing: harmful protection
We exist to rid the world of mosquito-borne disease. The independent global foundation for mosquito diseases and vector control, through honest information, real-time surveillance, and a promise to never poison the nature we defend.
Spraying the Mediterranean with insecticide is not a strategy. It is an admission of failure.
Protection is a barrier, not a toxic fog.
Someone has to be blunt about snake oil. It is us.
The mosquito-protection aisle is full of products that range from ineffective to actively harmful, sold as if they were adequate protection. The public has a right to know the difference, and a right to a credible alternative.
Read the evidenceGas-emitting coils
Indoor-air harmPyrethroid smoke devices
Burning one coil indoors emits fine particulate (PM2.5) on the order of dozens of cigarettes. The clearest case of a product that harms the air you breathe.
Liu et al. 2003 · Environ. Health Perspect.
Plug-in diffusers
Unquantified exposurePrallethrin vaporisers
A volatile insecticide released continuously into sealed rooms. Prallethrin is an EU candidate for substitution, and cumulative human exposure is poorly characterised.
Reg. (EU) 2024/2576 · prallethrin PT18
Scented candles
Marginal efficacyCitronella and essential-oil blends
A marginal repellent effect at close laboratory distances, and no meaningful protection in real outdoor conditions. Ambience sold as protection.
Fradin & Day 2002 · NEJM
Aerosol repellents
Effective, not a barrierDEET and picaridin
These work: DEET and picaridin are effective repellents. But they are a supplement, not a barrier. Skin and airway exposure, residue on clothing and bedding, and protection that ends the moment you forget to reapply.
Fradin & Day 2002 · NEJM
Uncertified marketplace nets
No certificationGeneric listings on Temu, AliExpress, Wish, unbranded Amazon
The purest illusion of protection: mesh often too coarse for the tiger mosquito, no EU BPR authorisation, no durability rating, sometimes claiming a treatment they do not carry. The appearance of protection over an open door.
No EU BPR authorisation · no durability rating
Physical barrier
No inhalation. No skin residue.
A textile mesh between human and vector. The mode of action that medicine keeps returning to.
Fabric-bound treatment
One active ingredient: permethrin
A single WHO-recommended active, permethrin, bound into the fibre, one formula not two. EU BPR authorised (permethrin, EU-0026815-0000). No leaching into air, water, or skin over the product lifetime.
Built to WHO standards
Category: long-lasting insecticidal net
Independent efficacy and safety testing against WHO target entomological endpoints. Traceable by batch.
Years, not hours
A net outlasts every spray
Aerosols wear off in hours and depend on you reapplying them. A long-lasting impregnated net keeps working for years, every Mosticare net for a minimum of three.
Measured limitation
Not a substitute for environmental control
A net protects a bed, a balcony, a garden enclosure. It does not drain a breeding site. We say so because it is true.
The environment counts as a patient.
We measure success by what does not happen. The bite that never lands, the fever that never arrives, the forest that is never poisoned to protect the people who live in it.
Opensourcing the fight against mosquitoes to stop one thing: harmful protection
We exist to rid the world of mosquito-borne disease. The independent global foundation for mosquito diseases and vector control, through honest information, real-time surveillance, and a promise to never poison the nature we defend.
Fresh from the field
New research, outbreak dispatches, and field notes, published continuously.
Someone has to be blunt about snake oil. It is us.
The mosquito-protection aisle is full of products that range from ineffective to actively harmful, sold as if they were adequate protection. The public has a right to know the difference, and a right to a credible alternative.
Read the evidenceBurning one coil indoors emits fine particulate (PM2.5) on the order of dozens of cigarettes. The clearest case of a product that harms the air you breathe.
A volatile insecticide released continuously into sealed rooms. Prallethrin is an EU candidate for substitution, and cumulative human exposure is poorly characterised.
A marginal repellent effect at close laboratory distances, and no meaningful protection in real outdoor conditions. Ambience sold as protection.
These work: DEET and picaridin are effective repellents. But they are a supplement, not a barrier. Skin and airway exposure, residue on clothing and bedding, and protection that ends the moment you forget to reapply.
The purest illusion of protection: mesh often too coarse for the tiger mosquito, no EU BPR authorisation, no durability rating, sometimes claiming a treatment they do not carry. The appearance of protection over an open door.
A textile mesh between human and vector. The mode of action that medicine keeps returning to.
A single WHO-recommended active, permethrin, bound into the fibre, one formula not two. EU BPR authorised (permethrin, EU-0026815-0000). No leaching into air, water, or skin over the product lifetime.
Independent efficacy and safety testing against WHO target entomological endpoints. Traceable by batch.
Aerosols wear off in hours and depend on you reapplying them. A long-lasting impregnated net keeps working for years, every Mosticare net for a minimum of three.
A net protects a bed, a balcony, a garden enclosure. It does not drain a breeding site. We say so because it is true.
Spraying the Mediterranean with insecticide is not a strategy. It is an admission of failure.Protection is a barrier, not a toxic fog.
The environment counts as a patient.
We measure success by what does not happen. The bite that never lands, the fever that never arrives, the forest that is never poisoned to protect the people who live in it.
The numbers we exist to lower.
Deaths a year from vector-borne disease worldwide (WHO).
Insecticidal nets distributed globally to date (WHO).
Continents under active Mosticare surveillance.
Tolerance for harm to the ecosystems we defend.
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