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Re:Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie by patio11 on Friday March 04, 2011 @10:53AM (#2288428)
The primary reason we don't die from malaria is none of the above: it is mosquito abatement via intentional habitat destruction and copious use of effective pesticides. Large portions of the US used to be malaria country: not a spe mof it is now, and if there was a malaria outbreak in a US suburb we would wring our hands about the consequences for about five minutes and then dump enough chemicals on that subdivision to save an African country.

Ditto Europe, by the way.

Re:Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie by nerfhammer on Friday March 04, 2011 @12:04PM (#2288754)
I believe the strains of malaria that existed in North American and Europe were far weaker than the African varieties, though