{"id":8368,"date":"2024-02-23T15:34:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T15:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2024-02-23T15:34:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T15:34:23","slug":"malaria-rates-surge-after-mosquito-net-changes-complicate-global-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=8368","title":{"rendered":"Malaria Rates Surge After Mosquito Net Changes Complicate Global Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The world is shedding its combat in opposition to malaria, a illness that has a devastating toll in Asia and Africa and is exhibiting up in developed international locations just like the US. A single enterprise choice taken by one of many world\u2019s largest producers of mattress nets greater than 10 years in the past has exacerbated the state of affairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Low-cost, sturdy and straightforward to distribute, insecticide-coated mattress nets have for greater than 20 years been a significant device in managing malaria, which causes signs starting from a racking cough to kidney failure, and might kill in lower than 24 hours. Nets don\u2019t simply safeguard the individuals sleeping beneath \u2014 their chemical coatings can quell a contagion and cut back mosquito infestation by killing the bugs. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2024-02-22\/papua-new-guinea-s-losing-fight-against-malaria-is-a-lesson-for-the-world\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is shedding its combat in opposition to malaria, a illness that has a devastating toll in Asia and Africa and is exhibiting up in developed international locations just like the US. A single enterprise choice taken by one of many world\u2019s largest producers of mattress nets greater than 10 years in the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7675,2499,550,7673,7674,1419,3039,2922],"class_list":["post-8368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-complicate","tag-fight","tag-global","tag-malaria","tag-mosquito","tag-net","tag-rates","tag-surge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}