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This article is infuriating. In particular, the discussion of the Kericho data and analysis of it. The salient point, ignored by the commentary, is that if you follow the data set a few years longer, temperature kept rising, but malaria cases didn't.
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Please look at Figure 4:
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Drug resistance (mainly chloroquine, but SP too) were rising during the 1990s. Some people wanted to blame rising cases on temperature. Drug policy changed, temperature kept going up, but cases stopped rising. Do the math.
I would like to announce that I have been studying Darmok in order to speak only through allegory.
I am freeing myself from the need to speak plainly ever again.
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New data from @WHO and @UNICEF show promising signs of recovery in global vaccination rates. But this progress hasn’t happened equally around the world, with many low-income countries faring the worst. reuters.com/business/healthc…
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Listening to RFK Jr is almost guaranteed to lower your intelligence.
His brain is a convoluted mess.
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RFK jr has demonstrated a deep and abiding commitment to spreading lies and conspiracy theories.
Any news media that give him a platform now are complicit.
It’s time to put out the trash.
I currently have approximately 50 square feet of lawn — the parkway.
I can’t wait to replace it with something else.
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It’s a great question- wonder if our @CDCgov domestic malaria friends have thoughts on why we haven’t seen (curiously the last year of this graph happened to be the last local case reported until now)? Importation keeps increasing (cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/ss/s…) so it seems surprising
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This is some pretty important contextual information w/ respect to the recent report of local #malaria transmission in the United States. Is there a reason why we haven't seen any for the past 20 years? Or have we just not been paying enough attention?
I'd argue that the last 20 years with no local transmission is more anomalous than the recent outbreak! Scott Filler published this back in 2006 showing local cases by year... we even had a cluster here in NYC back in 1993: cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtm…
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Malaria team at @IDMOD_ORG is looking for a research scientist to join our team for 6 months to help with a literature review and data extraction effort for ITNs/LLINs🦟 Working with me and @abertozz 😎 Details here: agileone.breezy.hr/p/19a5c6a…
If you worry about global warming & malaria reestablishing where you live, please tell your elected representatives to support malaria eradication.
It would reduce your risk a little.
…but if you’re scared, imagine living with malaria all the time. /1
When it comes to malaria control & climate change, we’re not helpless.
We have good tools to control malaria.
Let’s strike malaria preemptively.
If we eradicate it, it can’t spread.
…& we help those who now live with malaria prepare for change. /3