Malaria
World magazine has a cover story on malaria in Africa, which is pretty good. Apparently a lot of foreign aid ain't going to effective mosquito prevention. I can vouch that mosquito nets don't necessarily do a lot of good. DDT sounds like the thing to use; it's not nearly as dangerous as people thought it was. (Or as dangerous as getting malaria and not treating it.) One thing the article didn't mention is that not all mosquitos carry the malaria parasite, just the Anopheles gambiae.
Here's another article I found a while ago, but haven't finished reading yet: malaria - the parasite from hell.
Last summer Elizabeth, the clinic's lab tech, let me look at the parasites in my own blood smear under the microscope. It was very cool. Here's a picture of malaria parasites in cells (with a lot more parasites than I ever had).
And finally, an somewhat hopeful article from Dec. 2004 about malaria vaccine research.
Here's another article I found a while ago, but haven't finished reading yet: malaria - the parasite from hell.
Last summer Elizabeth, the clinic's lab tech, let me look at the parasites in my own blood smear under the microscope. It was very cool. Here's a picture of malaria parasites in cells (with a lot more parasites than I ever had).
And finally, an somewhat hopeful article from Dec. 2004 about malaria vaccine research.
posted by Amanda at
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I found that World article very insightful! It was interesting that everyone jumped on the anti-DDT bandwagon before really knowing whether it was harmful or not. It sounded like they based all their knowledge off of that one woman's "findings." Doesn't anyone learn about the whole "you have to test your hypothesis before it becomes a theory?"
~ashleigh
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