Do you remember last summer’s health scare around the housing market collapse? There was a theory that all the swimming pools in all the foreclosed houses in California would become major mosquito breeding grounds, leading to major crops of mosquitoes, leading to West Nile virus or maybe even the reintroduction of malaria in [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘malaria’
March 26, 2009
Numbers from World TB Day + Maps of Malaria
Twice as many people were diagnosed with both HIV and tuberculosis in 2007 than were in 2006. (Science Mag, BMJ)
Quote about global health data in the article that is quite consistent with what I’ve seen comes from Richard Chaisson:
“They’re working with the best stuff they have, and the best stuff they have is not [...]
December 19, 2008
Combinatorics of Malaria Eradication
I’ve got at least 3 interesting blog posts worth of material on TCS applications for fighting malaria, but I haven’t had time to pen even one of them. Here is an abbreviated version:
Malaria is a major disease, something like the #3 infectious disease globally, and the #1 cause of both death and disability in [...]
