Malaria/Duumo.

[PrinceDaadi]

\Malaria kills Millions of people in Africa, Asia and Americas. but majority of the death happens in sub Saharan Africa.Why there is no vaccination? Why there is no serious medicine that can cure? nearly half a million kids die for malaria every year.

Is it because pharmaceutical companies dont want to invest in R&D regarding Malaria drug and vaccination since most of the effected patients are from poor continents and there is no much return/profit from them?

[Tuushi]

Drug companies are in business for profit and researching/funding a vaccine that those in dire need of it wont afford is waste and really not worth it.

[Alphanumeric]

DDT virtually wiped out malaria in North America and Europe. Blame environmentalists for their deaths.

[PrinceDaadi]

Tushi: what do we do? start our own drug companies? I know basic research is very important which African universities dont offer. In America most of universities carrry out basic research while Companies more in-dept research and development.

It seems there is a gab some where!

Alpha: more explanations please!

[Alphanumeric]

DDT is a pesticide used to kill mosquitoes and other disease-spreading insects. Malaria along with several other insect-born diseases have been wiped out (mostly) from Europe and North America with the widespread use of the pesticide. In the 60s it was taken up as an icon of environmental degradation, being toted as both a hazard to the natural environment and human health. We are taught as environmentalists that its continued use would result in sever deformities in animal and human offspring, by way of bioaccumulation (more than likely a term coined for this cause): the accumulation of toxins up the food chain. No study has conclusively proven its supposed dangers. A novel titled Silent Spring is the unofficial religious handbook of environmentalists, in which the insecticide is marked as an evil that needs to be wiped out.

The chemist who discovered its insecticidal use was awarded the Nobel prize.

Today, environmentalists will try to tell you that malaria is a low threat and doesn't kill enough people to warrant the use of pesticides, or even public awareness.

[Tuushi]

Daadi.I dont really have lots of info/knowledge on this.Lakiin,i dont think many African countries are that dedicated towards eradicating the malaria issue.

Most african countries play by their own rules,who is forcing them to walk away from the DDT Alpha mentioned?

[Alphanumeric]

Although the pesticide is legal to use in disease control, India is the only country which still manufactures DDT as a result of pressures from the Stockholm Convention; an environmental treatise signed by 150+ countries and participated by 170+. There are obvious economic and political pressures in following suit with these conventions.