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Political goodwill and financial support for disease
control depends on the demand which in turn depends upon adequate health education. Is the
community able to confront its problems appropriately? What measures like vaccination and
vector control are truely applicable? Are vector control measures being manipulated in sly
ways to control the human population explosion. No, but problems are ignored.
The heros of malaria, like Walter Reed (yellow fever) were army doctors. Alphonse Laveran
discovered the malaria parasite in the blood in Algeria in 1880. Working in India, Ronald
Ross, finally found the mosquito stage of this parasite in 1897. Incidentally, the
protection of invading troops rather than native populations has been the concern for 2
centuries. Temperate nations may only respond to malaria as a traveler’s disease.
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