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"Venezuela was the first nation in the world to becertified by the World Health Organization for eradicating malaria in its most populated areas, beating the United States and other developed countries to that milestone in 1961.
It was a huge accomplishment for a small nation, one that helped pave Venezuela’s development as an oil power and fueled hopes that a model to stamp out malaria across the globe was at hand. Since then, the world has dedicated enormous amounts of time and money to beating back the disease, with deaths plummeting by 60 percent in places with malaria in recent years, according to the W.H.O.
But in Venezuela, the clock is running backward. The country
has brought malaria back, sweeping the disease out of the remote jungle areas where it quietly persisted and spreading it around the nation at levels not seen in Venezuela for 75 years, medical experts say."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/world/venezuela-malaria-mines.html
"...deaths plummeting by 60 percent in places with malaria in recent years, according to the W.H.O." That's using liberal math, of course, where first you jack up the deaths, or the unemployment, or the deficit to amazing heights and then you can claim a massive decrease. The fact remains that from when many countries were approaching an actual eradication of malaria, and the associated mosquitoes, William Ruckleshaus single-handedly reverse the course.
William Ruckleshaus and the "Save the Mosquitoes" folks are getting what they want. Millions of deaths from malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases.
It was a huge accomplishment for a small nation, one that helped pave Venezuela’s development as an oil power and fueled hopes that a model to stamp out malaria across the globe was at hand. Since then, the world has dedicated enormous amounts of time and money to beating back the disease, with deaths plummeting by 60 percent in places with malaria in recent years, according to the W.H.O.
But in Venezuela, the clock is running backward. The country
has brought malaria back, sweeping the disease out of the remote jungle areas where it quietly persisted and spreading it around the nation at levels not seen in Venezuela for 75 years, medical experts say."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/world/venezuela-malaria-mines.html
"...deaths plummeting by 60 percent in places with malaria in recent years, according to the W.H.O." That's using liberal math, of course, where first you jack up the deaths, or the unemployment, or the deficit to amazing heights and then you can claim a massive decrease. The fact remains that from when many countries were approaching an actual eradication of malaria, and the associated mosquitoes, William Ruckleshaus single-handedly reverse the course.
William Ruckleshaus and the "Save the Mosquitoes" folks are getting what they want. Millions of deaths from malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases.
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