Mohammad Tofazzal Hossain Howlader

A landmark study published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, led by Dr Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury and 29 co-investigators, deserves the attention of every policymaker, physician, regulator, and farmer in Bangladesh.

The prime minister recently rejected a proposal for Chattogram City Corporation officials to study innovative mosquito control programmes in Florida, and remarked that spending two or three hours beside any stagnant water body in the country after sunset would be enough to inspire innovative methods for mosquito control.