“Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.” DealsSituationGoing AwayTriggersMedicationMalaria Author:Adam Ant
“Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.” AgeFacesLiftsMore MoneyScourgeMalariaBotoxPolioPox Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.” CountryProblemTakenFourChangedVictoryMajorsAidsTreatedMortalityDiscourseHivPoorestMalariaHiv AidsHealth ProblemsTuberculosis Author:Paul Farmer
“A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.” IfsKnowsMenYearsEndsBlackWaterOne DaySicknessNightmareChillFeverKidneysMalaria Book:West with the Night Source: West with the Night
“Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.” InfluenceExampleDiseaseClimateIncludingSensitiveDimensionsTemperatureEpidemicsParasitesMosquitoesMalariaOutbreaksRainfallHumidityMeningitis Author:Margaret Chan
“I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.” KindScienceFailureFindingsPatientFedsParasitesMosquitoesMalaria Author:Ronald Ross
“Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?” NextAbilityCompanyGenerationsMedicineEntrepreneurTricksFuelFlexibilityNext GenerationMalariaLarge Companies Author:Vinod Khosla