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.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).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.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.