Malaria

How to Wipe Out Malaria for Good

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Municipal workers spray chemicals in canal and other worker fumigate slum area to kill mosquito in Kolkata. and malaria on August 9, 2017 in Kolkata.

 

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By ERIN M. STUCKEY 

5:07 AM EDT

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Stuckey is an epidemiologist and a program officer with the malaria team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supporting efforts to eradicate malaria. She has over a decade of experience in the global health field and is a Foreign Policy Interrupted Fellow.

Malaria has plagued humanity for thousands of years. Caused by a tiny parasite transported from person to person by a certain kind of mosquito, the disease poses a risk to nearly half the world’s population./.../