10mo ago

Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort

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Egypt declared malaria-free by World Health Organization

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/33029459

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/33029458
“Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilization itself, but the disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to its history," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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Cool! Way to go, Egyptians!
Soviets did it in 5 years
- Colonialism is one hell of a drug.
  
  USSR wasn't exactly a perfect state or even a state where justice prevails, but it wasn't colonial. There were a couple of times when it behaved like a colonial power (e.g. Czechoslovakia 1968), but in general it did what NATO does to Ukraine right now.

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