"#Climate-induced disasters, in the shape of devastating floods and excessive rains, have increased the burden of #malaria manifold, registering an alarming spike in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province [#Pakistan] in the preceding year of 2023.
Data compiled by the Public Health Department puts that in startlingly concrete terms: KP's malaria burden more than tripled in one year, a jump from 150,000 cases in 2022 to 500,000 in 2023, Dr Roghani disclosed."
Climate change is reviving or migrating the threat of some diseases like malaria which has never lift African continent and killed or sickened millions of people.
Welt-Malaria-Tag: "Machen nicht die Fortschritte, die wir machen sollten"
Weltweit stecken sich jährlich rund 250 Millionen Menschen mit Malaria an, viele sterben an einer Infektion - vor allem in Afrika. In Kamerun läuft eine Impfkampagne, die Hoffnung macht, aber auch auf Widerstand stößt. Von K. Küstner.
"Malaria incidents are on the rise. There were 249 million cases of this parasitic disease in 2022, five million more than in 2021. Africa suffers more than any other region from malaria, with 94% of cases and 95% of deaths worldwide.
This year two revolutionary malaria vaccines are being rolled out across the continent"
Why do the #malaria parasite's #merozoite surface proteins #MSPs have exactly 2 deeply-diverged lineages? Genomic analysis of #Plasmodium DBLMSP & DBLMSP2 reveals the evolutionary explanation to this long-standing puzzle @bricoletc@ZaminIqbal#PLOSBiologyhttps://plos.io/3TC8WOl
"Without a concerted effort to tackle #ClimateChange and ensure the continued delivery of healthcare in crises and #conflict, #malaria will continue to spread into new regions. "
New paper published in Nature mag argues that #ClimateChange causes as many annual deaths as the population of Geneva and will have caused over 4 million deaths since 2000, surpassing the population of cities like Los Angeles.
These deaths, largely unnoticed by victims' families and governments, are predominantly attributed to #malaria in sub-Saharan #Africa, and malnutrition and diarrheal diseases in South Asia, with young children being the most affected. 🧵 1/2
"The Romans conquered the world through seriousness, discipline, organisation, continuity of vision and method; through the conviction that they were a superior race, born to command; through the well-considered, methodically calculated use of the most ruthless cruelty, cold perfidy and the most hypocritical propaganda, employed simultaneously or in turn; by an unshakeable resolution to always sacrifice everything to prestige, without ever being sensitive either to peril, or to pity, or to any human respect; by the art of decomposing under terror the very soul of their adversaries, or of putting them to sleep with hope, before enslaving them with arms; finally by such skilful handling of the crudest lie that they have deceived even posterity and are still deceiving us. "
Simone Weil, in "Some reflections on the origins of Hitlerism". @history
"Life expectancy at birth in Roman Egypt was just 27.3 for women and 26.2 for men."
"As the empire expanded, the Romans took the show—including all their diseases—on the road. In every location, “The empire’s arrival led to the hasty construction of the first town, in Roman style, with baths and aqueducts, drains, heating systems, and latrines. Despite the amenities, a reasonable answer to the question ‘What have the Romans ever done for us?’ might have been ‘Got us sick.’ Mortality rates went up.”