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Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort

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536 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 12:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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bufferoverflow ◴[21 Oct 24 14:44 UTC] No.41904719[source]▶
Doesn't it take just one tourist with malaria to bring it back?
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umanwizard ◴[21 Oct 24 14:55 UTC] No.41904867[source]▶
Malaria isn't contagious
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folli ◴[21 Oct 24 15:59 UTC] No.41905512[source]▶
That's technically correct, but an infectious person can infect another person over a vector (i.e. mosquitos).

So you get rid of mosquitos OR rid of malaria.

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umanwizard ◴[21 Oct 24 19:53 UTC] No.41907857[source]▶
That’s true; I didn’t realize it could go human -> mosquito -> human but according to Google you’re right.
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1. tshaddox ◴[21 Oct 24 21:07 UTC] No.41908537[source]▶
Isn’t that the only way? I’m pretty sure the human hosts are a vital step in the Plasmodium lifecycle.