Thursday, July 01, 2021

Nature journal: It’s official: China has eliminated malaria

Can you rely on communist propaganda when they celebrate 100 years of  communist party dictatorship? Is it possible to verify this claim?
Of course, the Communist Party of China would like to teach the West a lesson whenever they can!

This also begs the question again, why do we not aim to eradicate blood suckers and disease carriers like mosquitoes? Are these blood suckers essential for life on earth or the environment etc.?

"The World Health Organization (WHO) today [6/29/2021] is certifying China as free of malaria, after a decadeslong effort drove an estimated annual toll of 30 million cases in the 1940s, including 300,000 deaths, to zero in 2017. Along the way, China developed new surveillance techniques, medicines, and technologies to break the cycle of transmission between the Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria parasites and humans.

Antimalaria efforts started in the 1950s with programs to distribute antimalarial medicines to people at risk, reduce mosquito breeding grounds, and spray insecticides. China launched a program to identify new malaria drugs in the late 1960s. As part of that effort, pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou screened traditional Chinese medicine concoctions for compounds active against malaria, eventually isolating artemisinin from sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua). Artemisinin became the key compound in the front-line drugs now used against malaria and won Tu a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015. China was also among the countries pioneering the use of insecticide-treated nets in the 1980s. ...
China’s ability to think outside the box served the country well in its own response to malaria,” Pedro Alonso, director of WHO's Global Malaria Programme, said in a statement."

So Western free democracies are thinking too much inside the box?

It’s official: China has eliminated malaria | Science | AAAS

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