Where else besides Africa is malaria such a debilitating problem?
A lot of Southeast Asia. Malaria is making a big comeback in the former Soviet Union because the public health infrastructure has collapsed. They have gone from zero cases to at least 100,000 cases per year. There’s even more malaria cases in Europe and more in England, in part because of immigration. Do we get it in the U.S. anymore? From time to time. There was once a small outbreak at a Boy Scout camp near my home in Long Island. There are valleys in Southern California where the local homeowners are exposed to malaria because they’re passageways for illegal immigration. Why isn’t America suffering from massive malaria outbreaks? It disappeared in the pre-World War II era as a result of DDT. We also got richer and because of that we can drain swamps, build mosquito-proof homes and purchase air conditioning. Air conditioning is really the death knell to mosquito-borne diseases. Andy also says that the sound of malaria being defeated is a screen door slamming. It seemed that both of y
