University of Cape Town Researchers Believe They Have Found a Single Dose Cure for Malaria

National Geographic News ^ | Steven Boyes

[Red Badger]

Wonderful news if true!.........

[Red Badger]

Does anybody have a health & Medicine ping list?............

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping!

[jimtorr]

...If this tablet is approved in coming years..... It will save millions upon millions of lives on the continent, helping avoid at least 24 percent of child deaths in sub-Saharan Africa.

I am certain that if this drug proves out, some reason will still be found to ban it.

[count-your-change]

If true the economic benefits to malaria plagued countries would be incalculable.

[glock rocks]

Prevention is, however, still much better than cure

Sadly true that.

Lost millions of humans by banning DDT, but at least we saved the condors.

[GOPJ]

ping

[Norm Lenhart]

And no one with a TV show, newspaper or microphone ever points out that it was 99.9% ‘brown people’ who gave their lives so that liberals could feel good about those condors.

I wonder why that is...

[17th Miss Regt]

I am certain that if this drug proves out, some reason will still be found to ban it.

The millions of victims are largely black. To liberals that is sufficient reason to ban it. They just have to find a more acceptable reason to ban it than, "Uh-oh. We'll have to find another way to kill those millions of animals."

[lack-of-trust]

Good News!

[Secret Agent Man]

Malaria never got resistant to quinine. As far as i know.

[Billthedrill]

Will be watching this one. Huge health implications if true. BTT.

[wardaddy]

this is a major finding ..like polio or smallpox if true

[petro45acp]

Without reading all posts..

It’s called DDT!!!!! “SILENT SPRING,” published on September 27, 1962, and the lunatics that followed those fellow lunatics Rachel Carson and Houghton Mifflin in banning use of DDT, may have caused more death in that region than tribal conflict (PFB, need to verify). In any event, bars, quinine, and meds are great, but killing the ubiquitous pest is the surest way to knock back the disease.

ruefully

[Red Badger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinine

[CORedneck]

I can see our Outstanding Leader banning this new drug through the FDA.

[Red Badger]

Can’t have people getting well and making more carbon emissions.............

[Secret Agent Man]

Yup, still an effective treatment.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Smokin' Joe]

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!