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Are mosquito coils good or bad for our health?

  • Written by Cameron Webb, Clinical Lecturer and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
imageSome experts have likened burning a mosquito coil in a closed room to smoking 100 cigarettes. By trini, CC BY 2.1 jp

The sight and smell of smouldering mosquito coils is a mainstay of summer. But is all that smoke really keeping away the swarms of mosquitoes, and is breathing in the smoke worse than mosquito bites for our health?

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