Argentina and Algeria stamp out malaria in 'historic achievement'.

Pedro_P

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Improvements in detection, diagnosis and treatment hailed by World Health Organization as ‘a model for other countries’.

An Anopheles stephensi mosquito seen under a scanning electron microscope. Photograph: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images
▼ Algeria and Argentinahave been declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization, in what has been described as a “historic achievement” for both countries.
The declaration follows warnings that the global fight against malaria has slipped off trackin recent years, with cases rising in many of the countries worst affected by the disease.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general, said Algeriaand Argentina’s achievement “serves as a model for other countries working to end this disease once and for all.”
Algeria and Argentina reported their last locally transmitted cases of malaria in 2013 and 2010 respectively, meaning 38 countries and territories are now free of the disease.
The countries’ success in tackling malaria was due to improved efforts to detect cases of the disease, as well as free diagnosis and treatment, the WHO said.
Algeria is the second country in the WHO African region to be officially recognised as malaria-free, after Mauritius, which was certified in 1973.
Argentina is the second country in the Americas to eliminate the disease in 45 years, following Paraguay in June 2018. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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Jack Sparrow

Tribals of Andaman Nicobar have evolved to be immune from Malaria.

ssangra

Wish we had some solution in India. Here they zap colonies with dangerous fogs comprising Dicholorvos and Deltamithrin or Altamithrin even though Govt of India has taken due cognizance of the toxicity of both and both are banned in many other countries. Pvt operators and Municipal corps do not inform the population abt the toxicity to flora and fauna and human life and the irreversible effects on neuro transmission , heart and stomach. Have had a tough uphill task in resisting this indiscriminate criminal fogging in the community where I live with people thinking I am encouraging malaria and dengue while it's their own actions of letting water pool up that does. Even doctors in this community despite having read the ill effects are not supportive because they will get patients ...such is the sorry state of us humans.

Pedro_P

ssangra 25-5-2019 09:59 AM
Wish we had some solution in India. Here they zap colonies with dangerous fogs comprising Dicholorvo ...

Sometimes, the difficulty of carrying out a task, is to swim against the current, to face the old paradigms or the old traditions and customs... There will always be a resistance to change, human beings generally like the easy way, and the most of the times they prefer to embrace belief instead of science.
The road is hard, but saving lives is the raison d'être of health professionals.

ssangra

Thank u for ur kind support. We do need a way out though I suspect killing the mosquito or changing its genetic structure may damage us in ways we are still unaware of. Surely even the natty mosquito has a place in the structure of nature which makes it an essential component of life on earth. Its difficult to accept but nothing exists without a good reason.

warlikeprince

Malaria was greatest threat to human population in past but with modern means of vaccination and health care it's no threat to us. In India total stamp out of disease is not possible until cleanliness is not achieved...