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| Morbidity, mortality due to malaria increasing | |
| 2003-05-13 | |
Incidents of morbidity and mortality from malaria are increasing due to combination of factors, including the unresponsive health system. This was stated by Punjab Health Minister Dr Tahir Javed while speaking at the inaugural session of a four-day inter-country meeting of national malaria managers organized by the World Health Organization here on Monday. National malaria managers from 23 countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region are attending the meeting. The minister said malaria was responsible for around 300 million to 500 million clinical cases and about 1.1 million deaths annually. He said majority of the victims was children under five and the pregnant women.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 It's actually worse than this. The world medical community has (rightly) been on crusades to eliminate smallpox (done), polio (almost done), and tuberculosis (some progress). A similar campaign to eliminate malaria has foundered, because to do so you have to eliminate the mosquitoes (Anopheles stephensi, Anopheles gambiae, etc) that serves as the reservoir. But our good leftist friends think that it is some sort of environmental sacrilege to eradicate an "innocent" species just to alleviate human suffering. So it's still drugs and mosquito nets, which are expensive and only partially effective, instead of spraying the little suckers out of existence. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-05-13 14:26:17 |
| #3 Chris Matthews revenge. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-05-13 13:04:50 |
| #2 Quite right, Fred. Most of the DDT used was for agricultural purposes, not this. We could have continued the spraying for mosquitos and prevented this, and, oh, yeah, West Nile, and the dengue fever epidemic in Hawaii and... |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-05-13 12:44:53 |
| #1 It's actually worse than this. The world medical community has (rightly) been on crusades to eliminate smallpox (done), polio (almost done), and tuberculosis (some progress). A similar campaign to eliminate malaria has foundered, because to do so you have to eliminate the mosquitoes (Anopheles stephensi, Anopheles gambiae, etc) that serves as the reservoir. But our good leftist friends think that it is some sort of environmental sacrilege to eradicate an "innocent" species just to alleviate human suffering. So it's still drugs and mosquito nets, which are expensive and only partially effective, instead of spraying the little suckers out of existence. |
| Posted by: Steve White 5/13/2003 2:26:17 PM |