Malaria Shows No Sign of Stopping (bloomberg.com)
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/12/30/0841215/malaria-shows-no-sign-of-stopping
- Source link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-29/malaria-cases-rising-who-report-warns-as-us-pulls-back-aid
In 2024, the world recorded 282 million cases and 610,000 deaths, and African countries accounted for 95% of both figures. Children under 5 made up 75% of malaria-related deaths in Africa. Global spending on malaria reached $3.9 billion last year.
Trump's decision to slash international public health funding and gut the US Agency for International Development has caused what the WHO calls "widespread disruption to health operations around the world." The burden of these setbacks, the organization adds, is expected to fall disproportionately on children. Seventeen countries now offer malaria vaccines to younger populations, up from three countries the year before, but funding constraints mean many countries still can't provide the shots.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-29/malaria-cases-rising-who-report-warns-as-us-pulls-back-aid
Re:Global Warming isn't real (Score:4, Insightful)
Can we all, please, for the love of humanity, just agree that mosquitoes are a pest that are not worth whatever environmental benefit they *might* have, and just get rid of the entire species with genetic engineering etc? They bring so many diseases (new ones like west nile, etc), and are a nightmare for enjoying the outdoors, which more people will care about if they dont end up with 20 bug bites. Let's just globally get rid of this one fucking species.
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*I meant one fucking Genus, or whatever all mosquitoes fall under.
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Then we wouldn't have Jurassic Park. Do you want dinosaurs roaming all over the place, because this is how we get dinosaurs roaming all over the place.
It's just a branding problem (Score:2)
Let's see if we can solve the problem by looking at it a different way.
MALARIA - it's the spunky little germ with the Can-Do attitude! When others say "I can't", Malaria says "I CAN!"
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Another option: It's the solution to climate change! After all, all the simulations and studies have shown that eradicating the humans is the best way to eliminate human-caused climate change.
Time for a new approach (Score:4, Informative)
In this case it has nothing to do with the current administration. It will get worse but to be clear it has been climbing since 2015. Time for a new approach to this issue.
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In times like this I ask myself what Jesus would do. Pretty much the opposite of the current administration.
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He'd probably just walk around curing anyone who asked - but had methods and resources we do not. I don't know if, "get someone on the other side of the planet to do your government's job", would be something he would have said, but he was a surprising fellow.
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He would have told the people suffering with malaria to help each other and he would have told us absurdly wealthy Americans to help the poor folks in Africa since we have the means. I'm an atheist but even I know that, he's not that surprising if you actually read the words.
I do appreciate the people who basically believe "Jesus went to the temple and showed the money changers how to maximize their profits"
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"When I don't know how the national debt works"
Why should we care about anything you have to say about the debt when you elected a man who drives it up the most? Twice! Explain to me why your opinion on the debt is worth more than the paper I used to wipe my ass with, you've been screaming this at me my entire life and when given the change you just explode it more.
Almost like the problem isn't as bad as you say or you're lying and don't really give a shit and it's just performative.
> 5% of the population, 37% of the funding, $36 trillion in debt.
USAID was 0.3% of the Fe
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> and he would have told us absurdly wealthy Americans to help the poor folks in Africa since we have the means.
> Oh we do, do we?
> That $36T federal debt is imaginary? FUCK YOU
> as the United States -- which has supplied 37% of global malaria funding since 2010
> 5% of the population, 37% of the funding, $36 trillion in debt.
> FUCK EVERY ONE ONE OF YOU LEFTY CUNTS.
You know that we're going to end up spending more on refurbishing the plane Trump got from Qatar than that 37% of yearly Malaria funding, right?
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Ah yes, Supply Side Jesus [1]https://www.beliefnet.com/news... [beliefnet.com]
[1] https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-side-jesus.aspx
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With sane comments like this, sometimes I do feel there is hope for /.
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> Start by recognizing the elephant in the room... "African countries accounted for 95%..."
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> Big money is hardly interested
The late Jimmy Carter essentially eradicated [1]guinea worm from Africa [smithsonianmag.com] through his Carter Center. It only took 43 years to do it, but if one small non-profit can do it, there's no reason others can't do the same thing for malaria. We know what causes it and how to slow if not stop it. It only takes the will to do so.
[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jimmy-carter-worked-to-eradicate-the-vicious-guinea-worm-parasite-slashing-cases-by-the-millions-180985791/
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"In this case it has nothing to do with the current administration. "
The President's Malaria Initiative, launched by George W. Bush, is one of the largest sources of government funding for malaria control in the world. It was subject to the stop-work order earlier in the year. The dissolution of USAID eliminated much of its support staff. Most of its awards were cancelled. Its funding was cut by 47% in the FY2026 budget request.
[1]https://www.kff.org/global-hea... [kff.org]
[1] https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/the-trump-administrations-foreign-aid-review-status-of-the-presidents-malaria-initiative-pmi/
How about a bit of responsibility? (Score:3)
At all points in time, nations and adults need to take on responsibility for their own situations. Trump is a fat sack of puke who should not have eliminated aid, but aid should come with specific requirements of responsibility and clear paths to independence. Countries don't even bother building basic sanitation. People sit around and build nothing. In the end, I 100% understand the desire to say, "OK then, fuck 'em."
Re:How about a bit of responsibility? (Score:5, Insightful)
America, we can afford to send bombs and troops to any country in the world, but God forbid we send some medical aid or wipe out some mosquito.
Re:How about a bit of responsibility? (Score:4, Informative)
Let's not forget that it was also cut for nothing, the Federal budget went UP after USAID was cut.
They also did not prove any "fraud", they took the programs, framed them in the worst possible way to feed their base and media machine to manufacture consent for cancelling and then just cut it and literally ran away and now pretend like they were never there to begin with.
Ask anyone to defend these cuts and you'll get a bunch of emotional appeals about tax dollars and "those people" and not anything concrete. Could the program have used reform? Probably but that takes actual leadership and commitment to public service.
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> Let's not forget that it was also cut for nothing, the Federal budget went UP after USAID was cut.
> They also did not prove any "fraud", they took the programs, framed them in the worst possible way to feed their base and media machine to manufacture consent for cancelling and then just cut it and literally ran away and now pretend like they were never there to begin with.
Oh, I 100% agree that there's no way for the budget to go up and tax returns to go up without either debt or inflation, so yeah, there's definitely some atrocious math going on here.
In terms of questions regarding USAID and fraud, this is a pretty good look at the topic, and the Youtuber is a self-proclaimed socialist, and decisively anti-Trump, so it's not some red team apologist: [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] . Even if you don't believe half of what she says, the other half is probably worth at *least
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUOwPcfc1MM
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> Youtuber is a self-proclaimed socialist, and decisively anti-Trump
ShoeOnHead is a reactionary conservative who is married to a literal real-deal Nazi no matter what she says. I'm good on the populist brainrot chief, the fact she says she support universal healthcare does not a socialist make (nor are socialist's opinions worth much anyway).
Here's how you can I will accept one thing for fraud: indictments. Show me the indictments of people in USAID. The rest is exactly what I said, framing and manufacturing consent.
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The right question to ask is not just how much it costs us to send the aid, but also how much would it cost us, in domestic illnesses and deaths, lost days of work and schooling and so on, not to send it?
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How much do you want me to spend on doing some other government's job? Am I not already overpaying for our own government?
Give me a number. Absolute dollars or percent of my paycheck that I should be spending to fix a problem on the other side of the world, that is someone else's responsibility.
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The problem with these kinds of people (such as the one you responded to), is that there is *never* enough of someone else's money that they are willing to give away. As long as it isn't theirs.
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> ...there is *never* enough of someone else's money that they are willing to give away. As long as it isn't theirs.
Curious. What is it exactly that makes you think it's all yours?
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> How much do you want me to spend on doing some other government's job? Am I not already overpaying for our own government?
In fact the amount you're overpaying for your own government's military misadventures is more than the amount you would have to spend doing what you consider to be some other government's job, willfully (I hope) ignoring the fact that those other governments were fucked over by bigger governments — usually ours.
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> When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
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Also Aid is a good geopolitical strategy. It costs a LOT less than bombs and the war machine but it gets countries on your side. It also stops countries from siding with your enemies.
Surely China and Russia will fill the gap and gain the political clout now.
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> At all points in time, nations and adults need to take on responsibility for their own situations.
Infectious diseases are everyone's situation. People who smugly watch their neighbor's house burn without lifting a finger to help because it's the neighbors problem tend to end up a little less smug when the fire spreads to their own home.
Malaria showing increased resistance to drugs (Score:2)
Artemether-lumefantrine -26%
Artesunate-amodiaquine -15%
Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine -11%
Artesunate-pyronaridine -03%
Artesunate-sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine -14%
malaria (Score:1, Insightful)
Well, if malaria is such an issue:
1) go back to using ddt. The entire Silent Spring thing was a load of crap based on poorly designed experiments (the scientists that did the original experiment recognized this and reran the same thing except this time giving the birds the normal amount of calcium they're have gotten from natural diets. The result was that ddt was NO IMPACT - actually the ddt heavy birds were slightly healthier, albeit not statistically significantly).
2) why would the US bear the responsi
Re:malaria (Score:4, Informative)
What a load of fucking bullshit.
DDT had nothing to do with the health of birds. It had to do with them laying non-viable clutches of eggs due to egg shells being too thin, causing rapid population collapse.
The metabolic pathway causing it is well established, as well as the empirical stochastic effects.
Go crawl back in your fucking hole, parasite.
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Maybe do your research, midwit.
Notice I said that the researchers realized that they'd underfed the birds calcium.
You think that might have something to do with the resulting strength of their EGGS.
Here, let me help since you're stupid: [1]https://letmegooglethat.com/?q... [letmegooglethat.com]
When they re-ran the experiment, feeding the birds the CORRECT amount of calcium they get in the wild, the eggs were - SURPRISE! - just fine.
SOME species do indeed show minor eggshell thinning; then again, others seem to benefit.
Certainly it
[1] https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=what+are+eggs+made+of
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> Notice I said that the researchers realized that they'd underfed the birds calcium.
> You think that might have something to do with the resulting strength of their EGGS.
> Here, let me help since you're stupid: [1]https://letmegooglethat.com/?q [letmegooglethat.com]... [letmegooglethat.com]
We're all aware of what eggs are made of, dumbass.
You said the DDT was affecting the health of the birds .
No, it was preventing them from being fucking born.
Re-read the following until it clicks, you intellectually deficient troglodyte:
> DDT had nothing to do with the health of birds. It had to do with them laying non-viable clutches of eggs due to egg shells being too thin, causing rapid population collapse.
> When they re-ran the experiment, feeding the birds the CORRECT amount of calcium they get in the wild, the eggs were - SURPRISE! - just fine.
Incorrect. This is a lie. It is not supported by your link or any literature.
> SOME species do indeed show minor eggshell thinning; then again, others seem to benefit. Certainly it's nothing like the case made to justify banning DDT.
A lie paired with an irrelevant truth.
Yes, some birds weren't materially affected, some benefited.
Those that were affected were affected seriously.
Here's where it's gonna get really funny.
Fro
[1] https://letmegooglethat.com/?q
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1) DDT was never banned for anti-malarial use. Its use was abandoned for that purpose because it was no longer effective.
2) Please provide an answer to why the richest nation on earth should not help poor nations that is not a paraphrase of "I'm a douche".
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> 2) why would the US bear the responsibility for curing 37% of the world's malaria problem by itself? Please provide an answer that's not a paraphrase of "white man's burden".
Whatever, Nazi.
The answer is that the big rich countries got that way by exploiting those lesser countries, and now they can give back. And even if you don't give a fuck about who did what to who, which is clearly the case, you do it so that the problem doesn't grow to the point that it affects you. You're neither moral nor intelligent enough to understand this.
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"go back to using ddt"
No country in the world has banned DDT for public health use. The problem is diversion to half-assed agricultural use, which has the effect of breeding resistance into mosquitoes and reducing its effectiveness for public health.
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> Please provide an answer that's not a paraphrase of "white man's burden".
Clearly you have no idea whatsoever about that poem and what the term actually means.
Re: malaria (Score:2)
Why have eagle populations rebounded since eliminating DDT? Perhaps itâ(TM)s lefty cunts.
Time for a drastic approach (Score:2)
The Trump administration's actions are despicable, but it was time for a new approach anyway.
There are major risks associated with messing with mother nature, but the severity of the malaria problem makes those risks worthwhile in this dire situation. It's time for the nuclear approach and make an all-out effort to eliminate the offending mosquito species. Nothing else has worked to stem the tide, so it's either that or a grim future of malaria deaths and disease.
Trump should date Malaria (Score:3)
Trump has cheated on every one of his wives, so, how about he sleep with Malaria, and with any luck, it will kill him?
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It's spelled "Melania"...
Trump doesn't care about children (Score:3, Informative)
unless they're blond and he can have sexual intercourse with them.