{"id":80770,"date":"2022-07-24T18:59:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T16:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mosquito-safe.de\/uncategorized\/who-recommendation-regarding-mesh-size\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T11:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:48:58","slug":"who-recommendation-regarding-mesh-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mosquito-safe.de\/en\/information\/who-recommendation-regarding-mesh-size\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO recommendation regarding mesh size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The mesh size recommended by the WHO for protection against yellow fever, Zika virus, dengue fever or malaria in risk areas is at least 156 mesh (mesh = number of holes on an area of 1 square inch = 6.45 cm\u00b2).<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>WHO (ed.) Insecticide-treated mosquito net interventions, status 2003, accessed on 27.05.2025, page 62<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iris.who.int\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/42685\/9241590459_eng.pdf;sequence=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/iris.who.int\/bitstream\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/iris.who.int\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/42685\/9241590459_eng.pdf;sequence=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handle\/10665\/42685\/9241590459_eng.pdf;sequence=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mesh size recommended by the WHO for protection against yellow fever, Zika virus, dengue fever or malaria in risk areas is at least 156 mesh (mesh = number of holes on an area of 1 square inch = 6.45 cm\u00b2). WHO (ed.) Insecticide-treated mosquito net interventions, status 2003, accessed on 27.05.2025, page 62 https:\/\/iris.who.int\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/42685\/9241590459_eng.pdf;sequence=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosquito-safe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosquito-safe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosquito-safe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosquito-safe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosquito-safe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosquito-safe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosquito-safe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosquito-safe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosquito-safe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosquito-safe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}