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Impacted forest patches a key driver of malaria in Amazonian Brazil
- dpflan 8y agoOn the topic deforestation/ecosystems: this reminded me of a company I discovered the other day called BioCarbon Engineering which uses drones to plant trees. > https://www.biocarbonengineering.com/ https://www.biocarbonengineering.com/ The idea is intriguing.
- monktastic1 8y agoAlso see https://www.droneseed.co/ https://www.droneseed.co/
- dpflan 8y agoThanks!
- tcj_phx 8y agoConsideration of an illness' context is the one of the most important reforms needed in our approach to health. 20th century doctors were trained to think that nutrition/stress/living environment were of no relevance to their diagnosis and treatments. This study confirms that context is very important to developing malaria-resistant societies.
- nerdponx 8y agoI often wonder how this approach to medicine came about.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y agoBecuase this approach to medicine was vastly more powerful than other competing approaches. Think about what this approach accomplishes in the 20th century. 1)Vaccines that basically wiped out most severe childhood illnesses 2) Conquest of polio 3) Eradication of smallpox 4) Antibiotics. No longer was bacterial pneumonia a death sentence 5) Significant advances in trauma care 6) Reliable birth control 7) Significant advances in cancer treatment, especially childhood cancers Doctors had been talking about the importance of nutrition and environment for centuries (malaria literally means "bad air"), but it was this recent approach to malaria that could actually cure it.
- clojurestan 8y agoTook me a second not to read this as a changelog entry > impacted ... patches ... key driver ... Amazon ...
- killjoywashere 8y agoI thought was a new take on random forests...