Egypt Declared Malaria-Free After Century of Work To Defeat Disease (semafor.com)
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/10/21/157250/egypt-declared-malaria-free-after-century-of-work-to-defeat-disease
- Source link: https://www.semafor.com/article/10/21/2024/egypt-declared-malaria-free-after-century-of-work-to-defeat-disease
> Egypt saw 3 million cases a year in the 1940s, and the Aswan Dam's development in the 1960s created new bodies of standing water for the mosquitoes to breed in, but by 2001 the disease was "firmly under control," according to the WHO. "The disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to [Egypt's] history," the WHO's chief said. It's the 44th country to be certified, but the wider battle against malaria goes on: The mosquito-borne disease still kills around 600,000 people a year, the large majority of them children in sub-Saharan Africa.
[1] https://www.semafor.com/article/10/21/2024/egypt-declared-malaria-free-after-century-of-work-to-defeat-disease
That's nice, how about the Aedes diseases? (Score:2)
Aedes aegypti is a vector for transmitting numerous pathogens. According to the Walter Reed Biosystematics Units as of 2022, it is associated with the following 54 viruses and 2 species of Plasmodium (versions of the malaria parasite): Aino virus (AINOV), African horse sickness virus (AHSV), Bozo virus (BOZOV), Bussuquara virus (BSQV), Bunyamwera virus (BUNV), Catu virus (CATUV), Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Chandipura vesiculovirus (CHPV), Cypovirus (unnamed), Cache Valley virus (CVV), Dengue virus (DENV), E
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Uh, who names a virus Bozo virus? How is a doctor supposed to tell a patient he has that?
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Clowns.
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> Uh, who names a virus Bozo virus? How is a doctor supposed to tell a patient he has that?
They named it that because the symptoms include: Balding head, pale skin, swollen nose, inflamed lips, changes in hair color, and acutely enlarged feet.
Kill the mosquitoes (Score:2)
Just kill them by releasing sterile males into the environment, rinse and repeat.
Meanwhile in the First World US of A (Score:1)
We have measles, polio, tetanus increasing year-over-year, with no end in sight.