“Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.” HealthTravelCommon SenseEffectivenessPublic HealthEbolaDisease ControlContainmentYellow FeverEradicationAedes AegyptiAnopheles GambiaeEbola SpreadContagious DiseasesMalaria SpreadYellow Fever SpreadZika Spread Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger.” DangerHealthEpidemicsPublic HealthMosquitoesMalariaMeans To An EndDisease ControlYellow FeverMalaria EradicationEradicationYellow Fever EradicationAedes AegyptiAnopheles GambiaeMosquito Borne Diseases Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Over a century now after Dr. William Gorgas wiped Yellow Fever out of Havana and Panama, and by that out of an entire continent, and more than half a century after Fred Lowe Soper led the eradication of Anopheles gambiae out of Northeast Brazil, their names are unknown, their carefully-detailed, boots-on-the-ground methods that they described in detail to leave expressly for generations to study and learn from to apply to malaria - and specifically they both had the desire for the destruction of malaria in Africa on their minds - is unread. The mistakes they warned about, the assumptions that they discovered to be useless and ineffectual in the field against disease-bearing mosquitoes are repeated today, while what Gorgas and Soper found to be effective and efficient in real-life conditions are routinely ignored or unknown, avoidable errors blithely doomed to be repeated thanks to modern ignorance of their incredibly important and transformative historical successes in public health. In the battles against malaria, to be ignorant of Gorgas’ and Soper's work in eradicating the mosquito that carries it is to be hobbled by the lack of hard-earned field knowledge, practical and effective discoveries that remain completely relevant and critical to success in eradicating malaria today.” SuccessLeadershipAfricaPublic HealthMosquitoesMalariaDisease ControlMalaria EradicationAnopheles GambiaeWilliam Crawford GorgasFred Lowe Soper Author:T.K. Naliaka
“It’s not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.” AfricaPublic HealthMalariaDisease ControlMalaria EradicationAnopheles Gambiae Author:T.K. Naliaka