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Dear Bill, Thanks for this great post! I guess it is a very important topic that desearves a lot of attention, how to achieve progress on malaria elimination and in several other health problems by improving living conditions.
By examining these past experiences we might be able to realize that by combine efforts it could be able to achieve several favourable outcomes in a more sustainable and cost-effective way. Thanks a lot and lets continue this effort. You have hit on a couple of important points we should think about in attempting to suppress malaria. One is that it is more economical to attack several health problems at once, if they have a common theme.
For that reason we attacked all water-associated diseases in the Blue Nile Health Project in Sudan; malaria, schistosomiasis and diarrheal diseases. Each lab technician could diagnose all three diseases.
Improved water management through better irrigation techniques and improved drainage reduced mosquitoes and snails at the same time. We have to deal with another point - the high cost of maintaining malaria suppression for generations.
Which means we need to demonsrate the profitability of malaria suppression, and we also need an Exit Strategy. Coincidentally, sound water management is integral to economic development.
Economic development finances expanding flood control and drainage infrastructure. This is a superb feedback mechanism for incidental malaria control. I suspect that this feedback loop played a major role in the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia. But I digress That is enough to encircle the globe four times!
This undoubtedly contributed to a reduction in mosquito breeding in the US. In , the ASCE issued a report card on America's infrastructure and they gave our levees a D minus - the lowest grade on the report card.
I don't know if malaria will make a comeback in the US, but we had better pay attention to our flood control infrastructure - just in case. America effectively waged an all-out, no-holds-barred war on wetlands during the first half of the 20th century. The environmental impacts of this campaign were considerable, however properly engineered levees and the associated drainage systems were instrumental in reducing flooding and making the land productive for agriculture and for general economic development.
Environmentally friendly flood control and drainage infrastructure is challenging, but it is possible. This needs to be a higher priority for agencies responsible for combating malaria. Just a question - to start. In your work in managing coastal wetlands, are you working in tropical areas where anophelines breed and are affected by salinity?
Do you monitor salinity changes when you install your tide-gates? That seemed to have been a key effect of the anti-malaria coastal work that Schwellengrebel did in Indonesia. Firstly, as you say, the US waged war on wetlands so effectively during its agricultural and urban development that we had to pass a Wetlands Protection Act to avoid elimination of all wetlands. The Act aimed at reducing the huge losses in wildlife habitat, especially for aquatic birds, animals and vegetation, without realizing the beneficial impact we got from the loss of anopheline breeding sites.
When I come back to the states I have sometimes worked for local Conservation Commissions in preventing developers from draining swamps. I found it ironic to realize that while working in Puerto Rico and Sudan I was guilty of the same drainage activities; something I cannot do here in Massachusetts! Secondly, besides eliminating wetlands, urban development also contaminates the water, again destroying anopheline breeding sites.
Furthermore, in many urban areas the exhaust fumes from vehicles are so bad the mosquitoes couldn't survive as adults either. So we had to pass a Clean Air Act. This water and air contamination is already operating in Africa to limit malaria in urban areas.
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