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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the pillars of Malaria control right now are a bit haphazard. In fact, some of them are groping in darkness not knowing how to control malaria. We talk about maybe coming up with a vaccine, which is a very expensive endeavour. We are also talking of using mosquito nets and all sorts of things. None of these on their own can be successful in controlling malaria. Mosquito nets, for example, is one thing that I have always laughed at and wondered why we are trying to do with them. This is because the anopheles mosquito has got over 400 species. Some of these species bite at night, some late night, early morning, indoors and outdoors. So, actually mosquito nets are just a little bit of the armament of controlling malaria, such that when we keep on encouraging everybody to sleep under the mosquito nets, we give them the impression that the mosquito nets will prevent them from getting malaria. That is not true. So, the control of malaria is something that needs to be very well co-ordinated. That is why I stood up to second this Bill, although I might have some reservations in its body. But I am sure we can iron out these reservations when eventually the Committee on"
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