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2008-02-26 International-UN-NGOs

Malaria Can Be Beaten In Many Places, Map Shows

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Posted by phil_b 2008-02-26 05:02|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Does this guy realize that mosquitoes bite anything with blood, not just humans?

I think he has a good point though, attack it where you can win easily and save a lot of people for the price of a few square feet of netting.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-02-26 07:21|| 2008-02-26 07:21|| Front Page Top

#2 The anti-DDT crowd has a strong Paul Ehrlich bent to it. They don't talk about it much, but they actually like the idea of population control via mosquito borne disease. Fewer poor people using up resources.

Posted by Iblis 2008-02-26 14:07|| 2008-02-26 14:07|| Front Page Top

#3 The technique existed for 200 years---it's called immunization.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-02-26 17:52|| 2008-02-26 17:52|| Front Page Top

#4 I could certainly be wrong, grom, but I don't think there's an immunization for malaria.

I remember my parents going to Africa for Project Hope a couple of times after Daddy retired, and they had to take anti-malarial drugs for 6 weeks (IIRC) before and after the trip. Daddy used to work for NIH, so if there were a shot they could take instead, I expect he'd have known.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-02-26 19:52|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-02-26 19:52|| Front Page Top

#5 I think Barb's right after visiting the CDC site - they're working on one, but it's not ready/out yet. DDT spraying (at proper concentration levels, unlike before) would do more to save lives than anything. Kick an environmentalist's ass for killing African kids

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-02-26 21:09|| 2008-02-26 21:09|| Front Page Top

#6 "killing African kids"

You know, Frank, people might not like me saying it, but I do believe that for the Western environazis, that's a feature, not a bug.

You'll notice "1st World" Western (i.e., white) children aren't the ones dying/being permanently debilitated. (And haven't been for what, 75 or more years?) If it were the enviros' kids, they might think differently. Or maybe not.

Pfui. >:-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-02-26 22:01|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-02-26 22:01|| Front Page Top

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