[Changleen]

Seems like we now have a way to prevent 70ish% of malaria deaths with a new GSK vaccine plus existing treatments, and maybe soon have a 75% effective standalone vaccine. Not bad.

WHO endorses use of world’s first malaria vaccine in Africa

World Health Organization’s director general hails ‘historic day’ in fight against parasitic disease

www.theguardian.com

 

[Pesqueeb]

It's medicinal!

 

[Changleen]

It’s actually the tonic that’s got the quinine in, and gives it that awful aftertaste when drunk standalone (also why it is called ‘tonic’…) but yeah, that is basically where G+T started from. The G masks the quinine and somehow the combo is quite good.

 

[6thElement]

I'll do my own research TYVM.

 

[SkaredShtles]

It’s actually the tonic that’s got the quinine in, and gives it that awful aftertaste when drunk standalone (also why it is called ‘tonic’…) but yeah, that is basically where G+T started from. The G masks the quinine and somehow the combo is quite good.

OK, syadasti.

 

[SkaredShtles]

It's medicinal!

 

[Westy]

My bOdY mY ChOiCe!

 

[SkaredShtles]

My bOdY mY ChOiCe!

Just imagine the havoc malaria is going to wreak when it becomes endemic in the Deep South of this country. Gonna make COVID look like a walk in the park...

 

[Changleen]

Just imagine the havoc malaria is going to wreak when it becomes endemic in the Deep South of this country. Gonna make COVID look like a walk in the park...

Is that happening? I’ve seen stuff about Zika but not Malaria.

 

[kidwoo]

I’ve seen stuff about Zika but not Malaria.

...........yet


We brought back measles for fucks sake

NEVER discount american exceptionalism

 

[Pesqueeb]

Is that happening? I’ve seen stuff about Zika but not Malaria.

Last time I gave blood one of the places of travel that got you refused was Northern Mexico. As climate change warms things up it seems logical to conclude it will make its way into the American South.

 

[Westy]

...........yet


We brought back measles for fucks sake

NEVER discount american exceptionalism

Yeah Malaria was endemic in the south until the 1930s. One of the reasons African slavery took off in the South but not in the North. It was for any moral reasons, indentured servants were more profitable than slaves but the life expectancy in the south for a European laborer was grim compared to Africans who have a certain natural resistance to malaria.

 

[kidwoo]

So you're saying sickle cell represents a certain.......how would one put it.......genetic superiority?

 

[Westy]

So you're saying sickle cell represents a certain.......how would one put it.......genetic superiority?

Heh, I was thinking of saying the same thing. As Africans are also the source population for all modern humans, have the largest genetic diversity and are the only population to not interbreed with Neanderthals, Denisovians or other older human species the argument of "purity" is also easy. Everyone else is in comparison is an inbred hybrid.

Also sickle cell is the result of only one of three genetic adaptations that separately evolved as a means of resisting malaria.

 

[Changleen]

Last time I gave blood one of the places of travel that got you refused was Northern Mexico. As climate change warms things up it seems logical to conclude it will make its way into the American South.

Yes, absolutely that seems to be a thing. I previously hadn’t associated the middle Americas with Malaria though - Brazil maybe…

 

[Changleen]

Huh — coincidentally:
A Chilean tree holds hope for new vaccines - if supplies last
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/chilean-tree-holds-hope-new-vaccines-if-supplies-last-2021-10-06/

 

[kidwoo]

worked out well in the amazon with rubber trees

I'm sure turning yet another massive resource extraction effort in SA on full blast for the benefit of rich white people continents away will work out well. Always has in the past!

 

[DaveW]

It’s actually the tonic that’s got the quinine in, and gives it that awful aftertaste when drunk standalone (also why it is called ‘tonic’…) but yeah, that is basically where G+T started from. The G masks the quinine and somehow the combo is quite good.

Ahh I quite like tonic water with a slice of lemon.... It's my go to non alc drink on hot days.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Ahh I quite like tonic water with a slice of lemon.... It's my go to non alc drink on hot days.

I prefer lime, but yes.