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Originally Posted by pdurrant
A gentle reminder to everyone, including me, that this thread is in the lounge.
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I will provide the link from the US Center for Disease Control (CDC)
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/index.html
and quote from it: (US government documents are PD on inception; hence quotable here.)
"With the success of DDT, the advent of less toxic, more effective synthetic antimalarials, and the enthusiastic and urgent belief that time and money were of the essence,
the World Health Organization (WHO) submitted at the World Health Assembly in 1955 an ambitious proposal for the eradication of malaria worldwide. Eradication efforts began and focused on house spraying with residual insecticides, antimalarial drug treatment, and surveillance, and would be carried out in 4 successive steps: preparation, attack, consolidation, and maintenance. Successes included elimination in nations with temperate climates and seasonal malaria transmission. Some countries such as India and Sri Lanka had sharp reductions in the number of cases, followed by increases to substantial levels after efforts ceased. Other nations had negligible progress (such as Indonesia, Afghanistan, Haiti, and Nicaragua). Some nations were excluded completely from the eradication campaign (most of sub-Saharan Africa). The emergence of drug resistance, widespread resistance to available insecticides, wars and massive population movements, difficulties in obtaining sustained funding from donor countries, and lack of community participation made the long-term maintenance of the effort untenable.
Completion of the eradication campaign was eventually abandoned. "
It was abandoned in 1969.
also from The Lancet:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...612-1/fulltext
See particularly paragraph 6 and 7.
From the World Health Organization:
https://www.who.int/whr/1999/en/whr99_ch4_en.pdf
From the early 1950's to 1963, cases in Sri Lanka fell from over 1 million to 23. (See section "Control Strategies 1950-1990s)
All these sources are non-political and are considered factually reliable.
Now I have nothing but good wishes for the vaccine. But I am not optimistic that it will solve the problem over the long term.