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This could have adverse effects, similar to medication agains HIV/AIDS. People will get a vaccine and reduce their efforts of protection against Malaria by mosq
by yaix 15y ago
This could have adverse effects, similar to medication agains HIV/AIDS. People will get a vaccine and reduce their efforts of protection against Malaria by mosquito nets and other means. I hope that will not happen.
- nknight 15y agoThere are always going to be Darwin Award candidates, and they're always going to take any form of risk mitigation as an invitation to engage in riskier behavior, whether it's a vaccine or an air bag.
- mousa 15y agoI doubt people will back off of malaria at this point in the past it seems like once it starts getting under control in a region it keeps going down. There is a lot of anti-malaria momentum building up with awareness and malaria education only increasing. The last few years have been success after success with the Global Fund and the Gates Foundation pouring in money.
- rmc 15y agoI think it would be the lesser of 2 evils. To continue your HIV/AIDS analogy, we know that people are taking more risks due to availability of HIV/AIDS meds. I don't think that means we should stop HIV/AIDS meds. We should still produce them and sell them.
- tsuyoshi 15y agoWhen I lived in Cambodia, even when I was in areas where malaria was not common I still used a mosquito net every night, because being bitten by several thousand mosquitoes is not conducive to sound sleep. And I got malaria anyway.