http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/malaria/ en-us Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:32:24 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2095751/posts “That spirit of looking out for one another, that core value that says, ‘I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper,’ that spirit is most evident during times of great tragedy. It’s most evident during times of great hardship, it’s most when natural disasters strike. We all understand that we have to come together.” – Sen. Barack Hussein Obama (D-Ill.) on the campaign trail, Sept. 2, 2008 Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) frequently claims on the hustings, as part of his campaign for the presidency, that he would like to usher in a new era of “change” where Americans... Infection Protection & Control http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2095751/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:32:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029048/posts June 10, 2008, 6:00 a.m. Drug Resistance Is DeadlyPharmaceutical knock-offs may threaten our ability to treat malaria. By Roger Bate Thai government officials, led by commerce permanent secretary Siriphol Yodmuangcharoen, will meet with their Washington counterparts on June 10, hoping to persuade the U.S. Trade Representative to remove Thailand from its “Priority Watch List.” Thailand is one of nine countries listed, earning its place because of intellectual property-rights violations by the previous Bangkok government — which broke patents on AIDS and heart drugs, undermining its trade relationship with the U.S., and harming foreign investment. While the U.S. will continue... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029048/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:16:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024121/posts While Chinese and Indian government-backed companies continue to produce DDT for their own public health programmes, and for export, no western company has produced DDT for over a decade. Major chemical companies such as Bayer, Dow Chemical, Du Pont and BASF produce alternative products, and have incentives to see DDT phased out. Bayer actually agitated against the use of DDT, abusing its position as private sector delegate to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, as reported in the Financial Times. AFM was alone among advocacy groups to raise this as a concern. The reality is that DDT is probably the most... Prospect http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024121/posts#comment Sat, 31 May 2008 19:52:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011450/posts Inconvenient Truths and Global Crises by: Bethany Stotts, May 05, 2008 Many of the world’s tragedies can be traced back to radical environmentalist movements, argued Competitive Enterprise Institute Fellow Iain Murray at a recent book forum. He said, “Rather…the mainstream model, the paradigm if you will, for receiving very desirable environmental ends has an inbuilt capacity for enduring disaster.” In his new book, The Really Inconvenient Truths, Murray argues that most destructive environmentalist movements following Rachel Carson display a similar trajectory: 1. “create a populist moral fervor;” 2. “deride anyone who opposes you as evil;” 3. “get the laws passed;”... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011450/posts#comment Mon, 5 May 2008 15:31:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007991/posts Environmentalists have condemned a trial plan to deploy millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in Malaysia to fight dengue fever, a report said Sunday. A mosquito bloated with blood it inserts its stinger into a human's arm. Environmentalists have condemned a trial plan to deploy millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in Malaysia to fight dengue fever, a report said. Malaysia has expressed concern about the insect-borne scourge after 25 people were killed in the first three months of the year. The New Sunday Times newspaper said the genetically modified (GM) male mosquitoes will be first freed in Ketam island, a fishing... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007991/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:32:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007151/posts In a ceremony in the Oval Office this morning, President Bush officially proclaimed April 25, 2008 to be Malaria Awareness Day (Transcript) America is a compassionate country that feeds the hungry and protects the vulnerable because we believe every human life has inherent dignity and matchless value. As the people of Africa continue their struggle against malaria, we offer our support and steadfast commitment. We call on all nations to join us in a great humanitarian effort. The president made a brief statement on the economy (Transcript) before boarding Marine One with First Lady Laura Bush for a day trip... WhiteHouse.gov & other sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007151/posts#comment Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:55:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999486/posts Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing on the implications of climate change for human health. Malaria will top the menu, but so will ignorance and disinformation.The lead witness will be Dr. Jonathan Patz of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has suggested that U.S. energy policy may be "indirectly exporting diseases to other parts of the world." Dr. Patz, the World Health Organization (WHO) and others claim that global warming is now spreading disease and may be the cause of some 160,000 deaths a year.In 2007, for example, WHO pointed to rising temperatures... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999486/posts#comment Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:36:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981180/posts SEATTLE  —  Within the next 18 months, medical researchers will be asking people in Seattle to volunteer to be exposed to the deadliest form of malaria to help them test the effectiveness of vaccine candidates.The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute is collaborating with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative to accelerate malaria vaccine research by opening a new vaccine testing center in Seattle's south Lake Union neighborhood.Scientists at the center will use early testing of vaccines to weed out those that don't work so they can speed up research on the ones that are effective. Malaria vaccine testing has already begun... Fox News / AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981180/posts#comment Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:13:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980022/posts Last year, challenging global health orthodoxy, Bill and Melinda Gates called for the eradication of malaria. That is, for exterminating the parasite everywhere and forever, except perhaps in laboratory storage, as has thus far happened to just one disease in history, smallpox. Their call, delivered at a malaria conference that they had convened in Seattle, was, in Mrs. Gates’s language, “audacious.” Her husband went further, asking, “Why would anyone want to follow a long line of failures by becoming the umpteenth person to declare the goal of eradicating malaria?” To many public health leaders, that remains a good question. While... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980022/posts#comment Tue, 4 Mar 2008 05:20:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972378/posts Mr Bush handed out bed nets on his visit to Arusha President George W Bush has said the US will help provide 5.2 million mosquito nets as part of a broader campaign to tackle malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.Mr Bush announced the plan during a visit to a hospital in Arusha, Tanzania, where he is on the second leg of a tour of five African countries. He said it would provide free nets for every Tanzanian child aged one to five. Malaria is the main cause of death for children in Africa, killing a child every 30 seconds, the UN... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972378/posts#comment Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:56:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923586/posts As high waters recede, officials rush to ward off onset of disease VILLAHERMOSA, MEXICO — Holding her pale, 18-month-old grandson in her arms in Tabasco's flooded state capital, Marisela Aceituno wondered whether the infant's vomiting and diarrhea was a sign of the dreaded C word. Cholera. "Everything I give him he throws up," Aceituno said as she stroked Christopher's curly brown hair. With animal carcasses rotting in doorways and disease-carrying mosquitoes in the air, Mexican authorities are racing to prevent Tabasco from turning into a hot zone. Cholera, malaria and dengue fever, they say, could pose an even bigger risk... Houston Chronicle Foreign Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923586/posts#comment Fri, 9 Nov 2007 23:48:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918695/posts Tuesday, 30 October 2007, 11:55 GMT Blood findings bring malaria hope Researchers could be a step closer to a cure for malaria after discovering people with blood group O are naturally protected from its most severe forms. Edinburgh University has found blood type O people are significantly less likely to experience the most life-threatening effects of malaria. It is hoped the discovery will help develop drugs which mimic the properties of red cells. Red cells in O group blood prevent malaria worsening. "We may be able to reduce the number of children dying from severe malaria in sub-Saharan Africa"Dr... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1918695/posts#comment Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:00:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1915129/posts Malaria isn’t history. According to the World Health Organization(WHO), malaria kills more than one million people each year. More than 40% of the world’s population is at risk, in areas such as Africa, Central America, Hispaniola, India, the Middle East, Oceania, South America, and Southeast Asia. Children and pregnant women are most at risk. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report that malaria is the fourth leading cause of death for children under five years of age worldwide. A child dies of malaria every 30 seconds. Time to Crow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1915129/posts#comment Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:59:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913245/posts The world’s most promising malaria vaccine has been shown to work in infants less than a year old, the most vulnerable group, according to a study being published today. The study, being published in The Lancet, a British medical journal, was small, comprising only 214 babies in Mozambique, and intended to show only that the vaccine was safe at such young ages. But it also indicated that the risk of catching malaria was reduced by 65 percent after the full course of three shots. “We’re now a step closer to the realization of a vaccine that can protect African infants,”... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913245/posts#comment Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:22:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756136/posts Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have developed an experimental vaccine that could, theoretically, eliminate malaria from entire geographic regions, by eradicating the malaria parasite from an area's mosquitoes. The vaccine, so far tested only in mice, would prompt the immune system of a person who receives it to eliminate the parasite from the digestive tract of a malaria-carrying mosquito, after the mosquito has fed upon the blood of the vaccinated individual. The vaccine would not prevent or limit malarial disease in the person who received it. An article describing this work was published on the Web site of... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756136/posts#comment Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:01:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909985/posts Ever since the World Health Organization reversed the environmentalist-promoted ban on DDT in 2006, eco-activists have scrambled to devise new ways to malign the life-saving insecticide in order to salvage their badly marred reputation. Their latest effort involves touting a new study supposedly linking DDT exposure in adolescent girls with increased breast cancer risk in later life. The study was authored by researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine — an institution infamous for alarmist research on asbestos and 9-11 rescue workers — and was published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a journal that seems to operate as a refuge... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909985/posts#comment Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:29:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890751/posts The discovery of an elaborate counterfeit ring in Kenya dealing with artemesinin-based anti-malarials has raised fears of the emergence of resistance by the malaria parasite against the only category of drugs that is fully effective against the killer fever. Two weeks ago, the Chinese drug-maker Holley-Cotec Pharmaceuticals announced that it was withdrawing at least 20,000 doses of Duo-cotecxin, an artemesinin-based anti-malarial, after it discovered that the Kenyan market had been flooded with counterfeits. Duo-cotecxin is a World Health Organisation (WHO) pre-qualified anti-malarial which contains artemesinin, an ingredient that has been used to treat fevers in China for the past 2,000... The East African http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890751/posts#comment Tue, 4 Sep 2007 02:53:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885685/posts DDT, the miracle insecticide turned environmental bogeyman, is once again playing an important role in public health. In the malaria-plagued regions of Africa, where mosquitoes are becoming resistant to other chemicals, DDT is now being used as an indoor repellent. Research that I and my colleagues recently conducted shows that DDT is the most effective pesticide for spraying on walls, because it can keep mosquitoes from even entering the room. The news may seem surprising, as some mosquitoes worldwide are already resistant to DDT. But we’ve learned that even mosquitoes that have developed an immunity to being directly poisoned by... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885685/posts#comment Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:09:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1882360/posts Last year, the World Health Organization reversed a 25-year-old policy and recommended using the pesticide DDT to fight malaria in the Third World. A new study published in the public health journal, PLoS ONE, provides more evidence that the decision was long overdue. The U.S. and Europe solved their malaria problem a half-century ago by employing DDT, but the mosquito-borne disease remains endemic to the lowland tropics of South America, Asia and Africa, where each year a half-billion people are infected and more than a million die. Despite those staggering numbers, radical environmental groups like the Pesticide Action Network continue... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1882360/posts#comment Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:01:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878620/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mosquitoes that carry malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever avoid homes that have been sprayed with DDT, researchers reported on Wednesday. The chemical not only repels the disease-carrying insects physically, but its irritant and toxic properties helps keep them away, the researchers reported in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE. They estimate that DDT spray reduced the risk of disease transmission by nearly three-quarters. Malaria affects more 40 percent of the world's population, killing more than a million people every year, most of them young children. DDT use has been discontinued in most countries because... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878620/posts#comment Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:47:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878341/posts August 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - National Geographic (NG), a leading environmentalist, de-population supporting magazine, has published a major cover story by Michael Finkel on the extraordinarily deadly and complex malaria parasite. The July 2007 NG edition article discusses possible solutions to the disease but also uncharacteristically acknowledges a leading expert's contention that the international ban on DDT was a terrible mistake which may have cost many millions of lives, especially in poor African nations. Environmental ideologues have been quick to slam Finkel's article as being flawed and damaging to the their past success in convincing the world to ban... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878341/posts#comment Wed, 8 Aug 2007 21:04:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860893/posts KAMPALA, Uganda -- Though Africa's sad experience with colonialism ended in the 1960s, a lethal vestige remains: malaria. It is the biggest killer of Ugandan and all African children. Yet it remains preventable and curable. Last week in Germany, G-8 leaders committed new resources to the fight against the mosquito-borne disease and promised to use every available tool. Now they must honor this promise by supporting African independence in the realm of disease control. We must be able to use Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane -- DDT. The United States and Europe eradicated malaria by 1960, with the use of DDT. At the time,... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860893/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:11:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840412/posts Carson's toxic legacy Her book Silent Spring is a case study in the tragedy of good intentions Margaret Wente Toronto Globe and Mail Thursday, May 24, 2007 I was 12 when I read Rachel Carson's newly published book, Silent Spring, in 1962. Although I'd never heard the term "environmentalist," she turned me into one. I didn't understand the complicated science in it. But I was horrified by her evocation of a natural world whose creatures were being wiped out by man-made poisons - the silent spring, where no birds sang. In school, I wrote an essay praising Silent Spring,... Globe & Mail - Toronto, Canada http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1840412/posts#comment Sun, 27 May 2007 03:27:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839911/posts At times it seems that there are more sites honoring Rachel Carson than Josef Stalin at his peak. There's an environmental advocacy institute (at Chatham University, her alma mater), a state office building in Harrisburg, several research institutions, a number of schools (no less than eight, by my count), and here in Pittsburgh, we got this bridge.     The bridge in question, once known as the 9th Street Bridge, was renamed the Rachel Carson Bridge late last year at the request of Esther L. Barazzone, president of Chatham University. It's one of three downtown suspension bridges crossing the Allegheny. Together they're... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839911/posts#comment Fri, 25 May 2007 22:20:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837551/posts Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring--the book that got mosquito-killer DDT banned and launched the modern environmental movement--while struggling with cancer. The disease killed Carson in 1964, two years after Silent Spring came out. Today's Washington Post has a story on Carson--whose 100th birth anniversary occurs later this month--and her noble fight against cancer. A touching piece. But maddening, too! Because in the story's 34 paragraphs, there are only a buried pair, the 26th and 27th, that note the ongoing controversy about DDT's ban. A Maryland Congressman (evil Republican, of course ... wink, wink) is quoted as saying that malaria deaths... Forbes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837551/posts#comment Tue, 22 May 2007 02:25:01 GMT