Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe
As someone who doctors once put "12 hours from coma" due to malaria (and I was in rural Tanzania, so coma == death out there), this is straight up the best news I've heard in a very long time.<p>Seriously, don't get malaria if you can help it. Your bones hurt from the inside out while you lay in a pool of your own sweat, crawling to the toilet every hour or two because of oscillating vomiting and diarrhea. Since you're most likely in a developing country, air conditioning is usually out of the question (you're shivering in the 100F+/35C+ temps anyways from the fever). The drugs, if you're lucky, only give you the most vivid and disconcerting dreams you've ever had (if you're unlucky, which 50% of people are, they're the most horrifying night terrors you can imagine).<p>The good news is it's highly treatable. The bad news is that at ~$3 for a round of treatment it's prohibitively expensive if you're only making $2/day and have a family to support.<p>We only got rid of it here in the US because of DDT. Malaria was endemic in the South (and parts of the North in the summer) until the mid-20th century.