So if the numbers tell us that the likelihood of your dying from this disease is less than 1 %, why is malaria used like a bad word in the West?
No really. From personal experience, malaria is seen and treated as a plague by people outside of Africa.
And by people inside of Africa? Well, in Nigeria, it's seen as a common illness whose symptoms are easily recognizable. If you fall sick, it's usually the first thing you're treated for.
No stigmas attached; it's seen as a nuisance.
A major nuisance
Not just the disease, but its carrier, the mosquito: noisy, nocturnal insects that shrill in your ear while you sleep and leave you with itchy bumps when you wake.
So what's being done? Well, there've been a lot of grandiose schemes that have attempted environmental control of the mosquito's environemt,
insecticide-treated mosquito net seems to be all the rage now, and there are the ubiquitious insecticide sprays. From personal experience, why don't we explore how effective these have been.
