Malaria Eradication Debate
The cluster focuses on discussions about eradicating malaria, weighing its benefits like economic improvements and reduced deaths against potential downsides such as population strain, drug resistance, and rises in other diseases like MS.
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What’s the downside to eliminating Malaria?
Malaria is a serious economic drain on endemic countries. It's likely that without this disease burden, living conditions would improve, and the birth rate would go down in these places.Also, I've had dengue fever, a relatively mild case that laid me up for a week and left my digestive system complaining for months. If I get it again, odds are it will be worse. I say that this is an experiment worth trying; it's not like mosquitoes can't be re-introduced into the wild if somehow necessary.
It's not malaria that's spreading: it's people.
I grew up in an area that forms part of the general malaria area of South Africa, but I have never had malaria. I know many people who have had malaria and the general observations that I have is:1. Using malaria medication is advisable if you don't have access to good doctors and good hospitals. If you permanently live in a malaria area, it's not practical.2. If you have quick access to a good doctors and good hospitals, it's often better to treat yourself once you are sick
I'm sure there are countries where malaria is endemic that could benefit from them. Malaria is a major scourge in the world.
1. Malaria has been around longer than homo sapiens.2. It will almost certainly be around after homo sapiens.3. Are these projects in the USA?4. Is anything preventing NGOs from more efficiently taking up the slack?5. Why is malaria important to you of all things?6. Have you ever had to worry about contacting malaria?7. Isn't this good for ivermectin manufacturers?
You can't eradicate malaria without breaking a few eggs.
More than malaria...? Article mentions nothing about it.
There is a problem with the parasite resistance to Artemisinin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisinin#Resistance)Regardless, malaria still kills millions... and you are complaining about them spending money on it?
As a person of Sri Lankan descent, this is great news. However, the elimination of malaria in Sardinia was correlated with the rapid rise of multiple sclerosis and type-1 diabetes. This is because the parasite that causes malaria is also thought to be protective against MS and diabetes [1]. I hope that was considered in this case, because if not we're just trading one problem for another.[1]: <a href="https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-