According to the World Health Organization, malaria is responsible for approximately 445,000 deaths every year. That number may be due to drop, however, as scientists have found that a human-safe blue dye kills parasites in patients' bloodstreams within two days – that's faster than has ever been possible before.
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That's where the methylene blue dye comes in.In field tests conducted in Mali, it was added to artemisinin-based medication, and was found to eradicate all gametocytes in patients' bloodstreams within as little as 48 hours. The dye is typically used in laboratories to distinguish dead cells from living cells, and was reportedly well-tolerated by the test subjects. It does, however, have one interesting side effect.
According to the lead scientist it turns your urine blue, which is reason enough for anybody to take it, really.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @07:23AM (1 child)
That said, education and availability of contraception might be helpful in attaining decent happiness:contentment:suffering ratios.
I've seen people complain about UNICEF etc, and asking why there are always people starving etc despite donations etc. But it's like regularly giving food to stray animals in an area with insufficient food. They'll reproduce and then you'll have to supply even more food to postpone the inevitable and bigger population collapse.
So to me it's fine to merely give food if it's an temporary disaster etc. But if the place just can't support that many people then they should leave.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @08:37AM
But if they leave, they are coming to some other place, and experience shows that at the other place they are usually not that welcome.
Unless you meant "leave" as an euphemism for "die", of course.