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Re:Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite by smegger001 on Thursday November 28, 2024 @02:31AM (#42263279)
only Malaria has killed far more people than missiles you brought up. According to estimates published in Nature, over 50 billion people have suffered from Malaria over the course of human history. (Whitfield, J. Portrait of a serial killer. Nature 2002) that nearly half of humanity lost to a single disease.

and unfortunately we are in warming planet where Malaria's host vector range is going to increase as temperatures continue to rise, destroying Malaria is one of the greatest possible morale goods we could pursue.

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Re:Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite by dietr1ch on Thursday November 28, 2024 @07:56AM (#42264903)
> over 50 billion people have suffered from Malaria over the course of human history.

Those are long dead already, aren't they? I guess the right question to be asked when thinking about taking action is which one is going to kill more in the near future.

> unfortunately we are in warming planet where Malaria's host vector range is going to increase as temperatures continue to rise.

This is a fair point and should be accounted when thinking about the impact on malaria

> Destroying Malaria is one of the greatest possible morale goods we could pursue

It's great for sure, maybe among the greatest ones around health, but I don't think it'd go over peace.

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