As the climate heats up (something the Master of the Key warned Whitley about), countries north of the equator may have the same of mosquito-borne diseases that plague tropical countries now. But a cure may be on the way: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested $1 million into a plan to treat malaria by sticking the infected part of a patient into a microwave and "baking" it away.
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In 1998, Whitley Strieber had never heard of climate change, but the Master of the Key burst into his hotel room in Toronto and told him all about it (The new, UNCENSORED edition of The Key, with a foreword that talks about how many of his statements later turned out to be true, is in bookstores NOW).read more
Your computer purchases may have helped to finally vanquish a long time killer.
As the climate warms, malaria-carrying mosquitoes may eventually arrive in the Northern hemisphere, so it’s not a moment too soon.
A new class of medicine has been found that kills the parasite that causes the most lethal form of human malaria. Researcher Doron Greenbaum reported that it irreversibly kills the parasites while sparing human red blood cells, which are responsible for the nearly 500 million cases of malaria worldwide and as many as two million deaths, most of them in children.
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It’s bad enough worrying about West Nile Disease, but nowMalaria, another mosquito-borne disease, has already hitFlorida. Withglobal warming, will it arrive in the rest of the U.S. aswell?
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