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malaria is still around, you know
Researchers have discovered a trend in the habits of mosquitoes. The little insects are feeding on human blood earlier than they used to. This means that more and more people get bitten earlier in the...
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low grade anti-malarials found in a number of african countries
This might be why the last time I was down with malaria – back in the summer of 2007 in Uganda – none of the medication I got from a clinic in the capital Kampala helped me out. I had to go back home...
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“the town seemed to exist only for sickness and death”
Time has this story about the “most malarial town on earth,” Apac in Uganda. The pictures tell it all, life in Apac appears to be singularly harsh. The story also reports that malaria steals away 1.3...
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sunday roundup
Easterly goes to church in Ghana. This post has pictures on some interesting way to use bed nets…. It seems like the only way we shall ever eliminate malaria on the Continent is by getting rid of all...
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the cost of malaria, and the continent’s disease burden
Academics have already established that the economic costs of malaria and Africa’s general disease burden are not trivial. Think of lots of man-hours wasted due to illness and government expenditures...
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What if we killed all the mosquitoes?
It appears that a malaria vaccine will not be available for some time. According to Reuters, “The world’s first potential malaria vaccine proved only 30 percent effective in African babies in a crucial...
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How to Eliminate Malaria
Sri Lanka is the latest country to be declared malaria free by the WHO. How did they do it? According to the New York Times: In 2000, outside the rebel-controlled areas in the northeast, malaria cases...
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Can African states eliminate malaria?
Southern Africa has an ambitious plan to eliminate malaria by 2030. According to the FT: Under the Elimination8 plan, the idea is to end malaria by 2020 in four so-called frontline states where...
View ArticleIs malaria responsible for underdevelopment in Africa?
According to a paper by Depetris-Chauvin and Weil, the answer is no. Here is the abstract: We examine the effect of malaria on economic development in Africa over the very long run. Using data on the...
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Mosquitoes May Have Killed up to 54 Billion Humans Over 200 Millennia
How about this for perspective: Mosquitoes are our apex predator, the deadliest hunter of human beings on the planet. A swarming army of 100 trillion or more mosquitoes patrol nearly every inch of the...
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