“The entire world has benefited and prospered since the decisive defeat of Yellow Fever, an unconventional and far-reaching military victory derived from the field medical discoveries of U.S. Army Major Dr. Walter Reed, designed and carried out by U.S. Army Major Dr. William Gorgas with the overall support under the command of U.S. Army General Leonard Wood.” SuccessHeroesPublic HealthMosquitoesHumanitarian InterventionDisease ControlMedical HistoryYellow Fever EradicationVector ControlWalter ReedLeonard WoodU S ArmyWliiam Crawford Gorgas Author:T.K. Naliaka
“To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.” CharacterMoneyMoralityDiseaseEthicsAdversityGenerosityInsecurityMoralsPerilContagiousPublic HealthDisease PreventionLucretius Author:T.K. Naliaka
“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
“Les moustiques porteurs du paludisme n’attendront pas poliment jusqu’à ce que les gens se couchent sous des moustiquaires” Common SensePublic HealthMosquitoesMalariaDisease ControlDisease PreventionMosquito Net 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
“How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.” HealthVirusesEpidemicsPublic HealthMosquitoesDisease ControlYellow FeverVectorsEradicationAedes AegyptiChikungunyaDengueZikaEndemics Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Malaria prevention and eradication should be inspired by General George Patton’s advice: “A good plan executed violently today is better than a perfect plan in a week.” In this war of attrition, millions of people will be lost while waiting on researchers to finally emerge triumphant from their labs with the perfect malaria cure; yet meanwhile, there are plenty of time-proven, practical actions that individuals, families and communities can do today with what is already in hand that can decisively defeat malaria transmission if applied with vigor and disciplined consistency.” DisciplinePublic HealthMalariaIndividual ResponsibilityGeorge Patton Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Malaria eradication requires a 100% mind-set of success. There are no 70% or 80% or 90% efforts that pass in malaria control and eradication. One single infected mosquito that escapes can go on to bring death to dozens of victims in its lifespan, lay more eggs and restart an outbreak that progresses from a few to dozens to hundreds.” SuccessEffortDiligencePublic HealthMosquitoesMalariaMeticulousDisease ControlMalaria Eradication Author:T.K. Naliaka
“If people's night fears of sorcery - which negatively influences their decision to use mosquito nets - fail to impress the outsider, the brute everyday reality remains; in a number of rural African villages it is still much too common for very real hyenas to snatch people, especially children, out of their own homes as they lie sleeping at night, because of the lack of a good front door.” SecurityAfricaConstraintsPublic HealthMalariaBehaviorsHyenasBehavioral ChangeMalaria EradicationVillagesPredationMosquito Net Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Les pelles ne sont pas élégantes, certes, mais elles ont tout de même réussi a libérer des communautés entières du paludisme durant les 5 000 derniers ans.” AfricaPublic HealthShovelsMalariaDisease ControlEradicationAfriqueVector ControlLes PellesPaludisme Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?” SuccessIronyAfricaEpidemicsPublic HealthEbolaMedical TreatmentLessons LearnedMedical ResearchDisease Control2015 Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Incredibly, just one mosquito species, Aedes aegypti is responsible for the spread of four known different deadly viral diseases to human beings, yet this mosquito has been allowed to infest densely-populated urban centers.” FollyNeglectFoolishnessEpidemicsPublic HealthFailuresMosquitoesDisease ControlYellow FeverFolly QuotesAedes AegyptiVector ControlEndemicChikungunyaDengueZika 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
“Malaria-hosting mosquitoes will not wait politely during their most active evening feeding hours for people to go to bed under mosquito nets.” Public HealthMalariaDisease PreventionMalaria EradicationMosquito NetPrevention Of Diseases In Africa Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics; laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.” SuccessCommunicationCooperationEffectivenessTransparencyEpidemicsSuccess StrategiesPublic HealthStubbornnessDisease ControlMalaria EradicationCooperation And AttitudeMosquito Borne Diseases Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Rainy season should fill us with joy, not malaria parasites.” Quality Of LifePublic HealthMalariaSanitationDisease ControlMalaria Eradication Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.” AfricaPublic HealthMalariaDisease PreventionMalaria EradicationVector Control 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
“Many ‘experts’ don’t possess the imagination or vision or any of the logistical expertise required to achieve malaria eradication. Their opinions shouldn’t be allowed to hold back men and women who do possess these qualities from achieving the ‘impossible.” SuccessLeadershipSuccess QuotesAfricaExpertisePublic HealthLogisticsMalaria EradicationSkill Sets Author:T.K. Naliaka
“Raising awareness versus raising alarm; the public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.” EducationResponsibilityKnowledgeAwarenessInformationCommunicationCooperationDiligenceEpidemicsPublic HealthReliabilityMalariaDisease ControlYellow FeverInformed CitizenCommunity RelationsInformed Debate Author:T.K. Naliaka