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Well, western world may start treating this mankind's scourge with enough priority finally, apparently poor people suffering and dying is not concerning enough.

Well, western world may start treating this mankind's scourge with enough priority finally, apparently poor people suffering and dying is not concerning enough. Btw in southern Europe we are starting to face similar issue due to global climate change, aka warming.

josephcsible 3y ago
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- DropInIn 3y ago
  I believe the position is actually that even more would be dying if we let the animals populations decline too much.
- nukeman 3y ago
  The 1972 ban was in the United States. It wasn’t global, and even the Stockholm Convention allows for vector control using DDT. In any case, starting in the 1960s DDT-resistant mosquitos began to emerge, so continued non-targeted spraying likely would’ve become ineffective sometime in the 1980s.
bluGill 3y ago
The western world has been working on it for a long time. It was one of Bill Gate's primary concerns for a couple decades. There have been several vaccine attempts that failed over the years. Just yesterday I was reading about a vaccine that is now approved in some countries, I'm hoping it works out and is approved here so I can get mine.
dotnet00 3y ago
The west already has been working on a malaria vaccine for a while now, which has been gradually earning public use authorizations. Not to mention actually authorizing genetic tampering to limit mosquito populations and potentially even prevent them from being able to spread the disease outright. I think that being willing to risk genetic tampering indicates a pretty serious commitment to solving the problem.
_Microft 3y ago
It‘s not that we are not trying to make progress: „‘Safe and effective’: first malaria vaccine to be rolled out in 12 countries“, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/06/safe-and-effective-first-malaria-vaccine-to-be-rolled-out-in-12-african-countries https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/06/s...
roflyear 3y ago
Doubtful. Read some of the flagged comments here to find out why: fighting malaria will inevitably become a political issue in the US.
floxy 3y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense for those afflicted populations to get to work on a malaria cure or mitigations themselves, rather than wait around to potentially be rescued by a remote savior at some unknown point in the future?

josephcsible 3y ago

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DropInIn 3y ago
I believe the position is actually that even more would be dying if we let the animals populations decline too much.
nukeman 3y ago
The 1972 ban was in the United States. It wasn’t global, and even the Stockholm Convention allows for vector control using DDT. In any case, starting in the 1960s DDT-resistant mosquitos began to emerge, so continued non-targeted spraying likely would’ve become ineffective sometime in the 1980s.

bluGill 3y ago

The western world has been working on it for a long time. It was one of Bill Gate's primary concerns for a couple decades. There have been several vaccine attempts that failed over the years. Just yesterday I was reading about a vaccine that is now approved in some countries, I'm hoping it works out and is approved here so I can get mine.

dotnet00 3y ago

The west already has been working on a malaria vaccine for a while now, which has been gradually earning public use authorizations. Not to mention actually authorizing genetic tampering to limit mosquito populations and potentially even prevent them from being able to spread the disease outright. I think that being willing to risk genetic tampering indicates a pretty serious commitment to solving the problem.

_Microft 3y ago

It‘s not that we are not trying to make progress: „‘Safe and effective’: first malaria vaccine to be rolled out in 12 countries“, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/06/safe-and-effective-first-malaria-vaccine-to-be-rolled-out-in-12-african-countries https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/06/s...

roflyear 3y ago

Doubtful. Read some of the flagged comments here to find out why: fighting malaria will inevitably become a political issue in the US.

floxy 3y ago

Wouldn't it make more sense for those afflicted populations to get to work on a malaria cure or mitigations themselves, rather than wait around to potentially be rescued by a remote savior at some unknown point in the future?