Canada Free Press
Jan. 14, 2011

Greens lie, Africans die

By Paul Driessen and Robert Novak

Fina’s little body shook for hours with teeth-chattering chills. The next day her torment worsened, as nausea and vomiting continued even after there was nothing left in her stomach. Finally, her vomiting ebbed and chills turned to fever, drenching her body in sweat. Then more chills, fevers, nausea, convulsions, and constant, unbearable pain in every muscle, bone and joint.

She cried out, and tears mixed with sweat. But no one could help her. She had no money for doctors, medicines or a hospital room. She didn’t even have a mother or father to comfort her. All the orphanage school staff could do was caress her, pray and hope she’d get better – and wait for her to die.

And in agony that never stopped from the time the malaria first struck her down, Fina Nantume did die. So did 49 of her classmates, out of 500 students in the APEA Primary School for orphans in Kampala, Uganda, in 2005. Most of the survivors were also afflicted with malaria at least once that year. Some became permanently brain damaged. Others died in subsequent years….(Full Story)

Review
Global warming and malaria: knowing the horse before hitching the cart

Paul Reiter

Insects and Infectious Disease Unit, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris, France

Malaria Journal 2008, 7(Suppl 1):S3doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-S1-S3

The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.malariajournal.com/content/7/S1/S3

Published: 11 December 2008

© 2008 Reiter; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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