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Only about 12 species of mosquitos carry most of the world's malaria, and we know quite a bit about the kinds of watery habitats that they specialize in.
If you're poor, you're more likely to get malaria.
So poverty causes malaria, but what we also know now is that malaria itself causes poverty.
We've been able to take malaria out of a society.
But just if you take malaria out, deaths from everything else go down.
What it means is, if you have malaria in your society, your economic growth is depressed by 1.3 percent every year, year after year after year, just this one disease alone.
So there's a huge economic challenge in taming malaria.
But along with the scientific challenge and the economic challenge, there's also a cultural challenge, and this is probably the part about malaria that people don't like to talk about.
And it's the paradox that the people who have the most malaria in the world tend to care about it the least.
They ask people in malarious parts of the world, "What do you think about malaria?"
When I told my relatives in India that I was writing a book about malaria, they kind of looked at me like I told them I was writing a book about warts or something.
A child in Malawi, for example, she might have 12 episodes of malaria before the age of two, but if she survives, she'll continue to get malaria throughout her life, but she's much less likely to die of it.
And so in her lived experience, malaria is something that comes and goes.
And that's actually true for most of the world's malaria.
Most of the world's malaria comes and goes on its own.
It's just, there's so much malaria that this tiny fraction of cases that end in death add up to this big, huge number.
So I think people in malarious parts of the world must think of malaria the way those of us who live in the temperate world think of cold and flu.
And so this poses a huge cultural challenge in taming malaria, because if people think it's normal to have malaria, then how do you get them to run to the doctor to get diagnosed, to pick up their prescription, to get it filled, to take the drugs, to put on the repellents, to tuck in the bed nets?
So the main attacks on malaria have come from outside of malarious societies, from people who aren't constrained by these rather paralyzing politics.
The first concerted attack against malaria started in the 1950s.
In fact, their rather patronizing view was that people at risk of malaria shouldn't be asked to do anything at all.
They had so much faith in their tools that they stopped doing malaria research.
The whole campaign crashed, malaria resurged back, but now it was even worse than before because it was corralled into the hardest-to-reach places in the most difficult-to-control forms.
The latest effort to tame malaria started in the late 1990s.
They are doing tons of malaria research.
You know, it doesn't really have any value to a family with malaria except that it helps prevent malaria.
But that's not how people with malaria think of malaria.
So it's difficult to attack malaria from inside malarious societies, but it's equally tricky when we try to attack it from outside of those societies.
That's not to say that malaria is unconquerable, because I think it is, but what if we attacked this disease according to the priorities of the people who lived with it?
We had malaria in those countries for hundreds of years, and we got rid of it completely, not because we attacked malaria.
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