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Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort

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536 points thunderbong | 5 comments | 21 Oct 24 12:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.794s | source
1. db48x ◴[21 Oct 24 16:12 UTC] No.41905640[source]▶
Dramatic reenactment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljmifo4Klss

(smallpox instead of malaria; close enough)

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2. zahlman ◴[21 Oct 24 17:41 UTC] No.41906433[source]▶
Jai's blogpost has been one of my favourites for a while now. I didn't know there was an animation like this, thank you.
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3. db48x ◴[21 Oct 24 18:06 UTC] No.41906703[source]▶
You’re welcome.
4. whimsicalism ◴[21 Oct 24 20:45 UTC] No.41908357[source]▶
it's unfortunate that the last person to have smallpox (and survived) died at 58 of malaria
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5. db48x ◴[21 Oct 24 23:36 UTC] No.41909673[source]▶
Such is the indiscriminate nature of mad gods.