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June 10, 2005
Malaria News
I'm always intrigued by news stories about malaria and think it one of the great shames of our time that we throw money at so many problems when this one might be solveable. I think that one benchmark of the developed world's seriousness about world misery is dedication to malaria treatment and eradication. Early days for this suggestion, but every bit helps. This solution seems particularly low tech, too, which is a very good thing.
I'm not someone who believes in single causes, but I do love to read "malaria ended the Roman empire" or "the stirrup created the western Middle Ages" kinds of arguments (I am, of course, convinced that malaria had a lot to do with settlement patterns in various parts of the world in various periods and that it's damned hard to fight on horseback without the stirrup).
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 10, 2005 8:07 AM