Eliminating Malaria Economically And Effectively

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Article Date: 19 Sep 2006 - 13:00 PDT

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The top priority for Malaria Prevention should focus on helping mothers eliminate expensive and distant treatment, and the ever-evolving drug resistance. Prevention is most effective through vector control such as "bacteria" treated bednets, ponds, anywhere water pools and feeds mosquito larvae, this, versus insecticide and vaccine campaigns, Through the development of antimalarial prevention schemes such as the Bti,, Bacillus thuringenis var isralensis, we can forget the expensive and government vehicles for purchasing or developing and distributing the vaccines.

The epidemiology of clinical malaria is the age distribution of syndromes of severe disease. Children born in endemic areas are protected from severe malaria in the first 6 months of life by the passive transfer of maternal (from healthy mothers) immunoglobulins and by expression of fetal hemoglobin.

Research resulting from the efforts to find effective and inexpensive Malaria Control exists!

Respected microbiologist, Palmira Ventosilla, of the Humboldt Tropical Medicine Institute, Lima Peru, developed a unique BTi incubation and delivery vehicle - the coconut!

Many such innovative vehicles can be developed following the team's ingenious instructions. "Douse a cotton swab with Bti, insert through hole in a coconut, plug with candle wax, incubate for couple days, break open and toss into pond or mosquito infested breeding grounds!"

The Mosquito cannot resist the algae, now treated with bacteria, it destroys the stomach lining, goodbye mosquito. A typical pond can take about two to three treatments, each effectively stopping the breeding of mosquitos anywhere between 12 - 45 days.

Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt

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