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Medicine is a game of probability. If you have malaria symptoms in a malaria area, the chance of you having malaria are around 99%. Every other disease with sim
by maxklein 15y ago
Medicine is a game of probability. If you have malaria symptoms in a malaria area, the chance of you having malaria are around 99%. Every other disease with similar symptoms (e.g Typhoid) is pretty rare.
When it comes to peoples lives, people very quickly reach the optimal solution. It's what humans do best. This android solution is a theoretical solution from people who have never experienced malaria and don't even live in an area where malaria exists.
Yes, I have practical experience with malaria. I also have practical experience with android phones. I am actually qualified to make experience-based judgments on the feasibility of that tool, and quoting theoretical papers may win you arguments on the internet, but it will have little practical usage.
When there is a disease in an area that has existed for so long that people have built genetic resistance to it, at the cost of having occasionally sickly children, then trust me, modern methods that work will quickly be selected.
Modern methods that don't work (bed mosquito nets), will be selected away.
Armchair solutions for problems you only partially understand are pointless.