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Malarail Eradication
The thing isn't that we CAN'T fix this stuff.
it's that we won't.
A clear and poignant example, is what happened in New Orleans. We could have fixed the levee's.
We knew they were messed up, we knew they needed fixing, but we cut funding.
I only bring that up because there was a massive debate in class today (health care structure and policy)
where the cost of eradicating malaria (something we can do) vs the benefit of the eradication was being debated.
We have the ability, we have the means.
we even have the money.
This, in many ways is the plight of health care fiasco's world wide.
from famines, to epidemic outbreaks of preventable diseases, to vaccination failures and lack of water treatment plants.
we can, but the priorities are elsewhere.
Malaria has been eradicated in some countries, getting rid of it entirely is well within our power, and becoming increasingly urgent as global warming will spread the range of the mosquitos habitat to more and more latitudes.
So, countries that have gotten rid of it, are expecting new cases (the CDC is predicting endogenous cases to start cropping up again by 2012) in the near future.
we can kill the bug now, but won't.
Malaria is used, because it brought Africa to it's knees
where malaria deaths have been increasing over the last 5 years (we where expecting them to be halved by 2010, oops, we fuked up)
But where you can get malaria, you can get yellow fever (deadly, hemoragic, comunicable)
yellow fever is very isolated, other countries go to great lengths to track down infected people and quarentine them.
An issue of cost? no, an issue of priorities.
Cuba has gotten rid of both, yellow fever and malaria.
So has the US.
Puerto Rico, a US protectorate/commonwealth, reports about 7 cases a year.
Cuba has been exporting experteese, and materials, to help it's new allies, brazil and Venezuela, do the same.
but, eradicating the disease in Venezuela does only so much good is Suriname, Colombia and Panama are still rife with it. mosquitos do fly after all.
World wide eradication is possible, and plans where it would be done by 2015.
Recently the WHO came out with a new graph showing the trend is reversing.
this is one of those things that we either deal with now, like the levee's or it's gonna be a major pain to deal with later.
people with HIV/AIDS, Hemophiliacs, Cystic Fibrosis sufferers, will be at severe risk of the disease being acutely fatal.
And, all the people who have never had a chance to develop genetic immunity (read, white poeple) will start dropping like flies.
What a mess...
When this happens, everyone is going to be like "oh, no! we didn't see it coming! oh woe is us oh woe is us...!!!"
i can see it now.
just like AIDS in africa, india and the orient.
we did export tainted blood for 5 years after we knew.
and now look. Stupid, Stupid Politicians.
it's that we won't.
A clear and poignant example, is what happened in New Orleans. We could have fixed the levee's.
We knew they were messed up, we knew they needed fixing, but we cut funding.
I only bring that up because there was a massive debate in class today (health care structure and policy)
where the cost of eradicating malaria (something we can do) vs the benefit of the eradication was being debated.
We have the ability, we have the means.
we even have the money.
This, in many ways is the plight of health care fiasco's world wide.
from famines, to epidemic outbreaks of preventable diseases, to vaccination failures and lack of water treatment plants.
we can, but the priorities are elsewhere.
Malaria has been eradicated in some countries, getting rid of it entirely is well within our power, and becoming increasingly urgent as global warming will spread the range of the mosquitos habitat to more and more latitudes.
So, countries that have gotten rid of it, are expecting new cases (the CDC is predicting endogenous cases to start cropping up again by 2012) in the near future.
we can kill the bug now, but won't.
Malaria is used, because it brought Africa to it's knees
where malaria deaths have been increasing over the last 5 years (we where expecting them to be halved by 2010, oops, we fuked up)
But where you can get malaria, you can get yellow fever (deadly, hemoragic, comunicable)
yellow fever is very isolated, other countries go to great lengths to track down infected people and quarentine them.
An issue of cost? no, an issue of priorities.
Cuba has gotten rid of both, yellow fever and malaria.
So has the US.
Puerto Rico, a US protectorate/commonwealth, reports about 7 cases a year.
Cuba has been exporting experteese, and materials, to help it's new allies, brazil and Venezuela, do the same.
but, eradicating the disease in Venezuela does only so much good is Suriname, Colombia and Panama are still rife with it. mosquitos do fly after all.
World wide eradication is possible, and plans where it would be done by 2015.
Recently the WHO came out with a new graph showing the trend is reversing.
this is one of those things that we either deal with now, like the levee's or it's gonna be a major pain to deal with later.
people with HIV/AIDS, Hemophiliacs, Cystic Fibrosis sufferers, will be at severe risk of the disease being acutely fatal.
And, all the people who have never had a chance to develop genetic immunity (read, white poeple) will start dropping like flies.
What a mess...
When this happens, everyone is going to be like "oh, no! we didn't see it coming! oh woe is us oh woe is us...!!!"
i can see it now.
just like AIDS in africa, india and the orient.
we did export tainted blood for 5 years after we knew.
and now look. Stupid, Stupid Politicians.
Comments on this journal
HIV is doing more damage to their flock, and still they refuse to allow use of condoms, poverty and unsustainable populations tend are high in the strong catholic enclaves in south america and africa, but birth control and even family planning is a no no.
they need an african pope.
because the eurpean ones lived in a vastly different situation than does most of ther flock.
i can feel learned helplessness kicking in.... grrr....
i've met some of the people who have been pushing for this program with all they where worth, but the politicos don't listen, and, for some damn reason, we let them make desicions, as if they know whats going on.
there should be an independant body working to fix things like this... payed for by whom? and overseen by what? i have no idea.
the catholic church could do it. they self-regulate, in theory they are to serve the people of the world, and they get their impressive bankroll from their billion believers.
it would make them more relevant, and maybe they'd stop the increasing loss of their flock to other religions.
maybe i should fire off an email to the pope and present this idea...