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IanR said..CH3MTR4IL5
But still kills more people at 400k a year every year, so in terms of a major mortality cause, which gets very little coverage or funding, reasonable point?
COVID-19 has only been around for a year and it has killed nearly 4 times the amount of people in that year than have died from Malaria and there has been 4 times the number of people infected by malaria in 2019 than Covid in the last year so the mortality rate is roughly 8 time's greater
100's of billions dollars have been spent trying to control Malaria. Where are you getting your information from. Malaria was eradicated in Australia in 1981 so odiously it get very little coverage here.
www2.health.vic.gov.au/public-health/infectious-diseases/disease-information-advice/malariaGod I'm so bored to even try using logic and facts to discuss this with a C.T. Nutter Your point is mute
I am getting my information from the World Health Organisation, the same place you went to:
Malaria eradication is underfunded by $1.8 billion, the level of investment has dropped and we are not on track to achieve WHO's milestone targets for malaria reduction, and this funding is not enough to reduce the mortality rate which has plateaued.
I understand that you are too bored to try and use logic and facts, but if you're going to dispute the proposition, then it is probably necessary. Otherwise you're just another C.T. nutter.
I am not supporting hashbrown33's wider position, or making any comment on covid. I do agree with the general position that
malaria is a significant killer which is underfunded and doesn't get much coverage, and this point is still valid, even though the numbers spouted by both of you are wrong (his incorrect assertion on the covid vs malaria deaths, or your unfounded figure of "100s of billions of dollars have been spent" which doesn't tally with year on year global spending cited by WHO. It would require $150 billion to have been spent prior to year 2000 on malaria compared with ~50 billion in the 2000-2020 period).
If you overcome the boredom and want to break it down with logic and facts, here's the whole proposition summarised again.
"The OP's point that malaria is a major mortality cause which gets very little coverage or funding is reasonable".