We all know that malaria is an infectious disease spread by mosquitos. Female Anopheles mosquitos spread the infection, a microorganism called a plasmodium, when taking a blood meal. But as the quotation often attributed to Mark Twain says “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so”.
Malaria remains a serious illness in many parts of the world, blamed for 600,000 deaths per year. In this book Ulick Stafford investigates evidence about the mosquito-plasmodium hypothesis for its transmission and other potential causes or contributory factors. He looks at the early history of the illness. He reports on the early research of Laveran, Ross and Grassi who developed the accepted transmission story. The potential collateral damage caused by current treatment and prevention programmes are discussed. The contributory effects of other factors, in particular malnutrition are introduced.
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Knowledge about the Malaria Mosquito connection
Sample of Malaria is Spread by Mosquitos?
Ulick is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He has innovated production systems with application of Lean and Six Sigma Principles, and brainstorming techniques, including TRIZ, to significantly improve production quality and costs. He was awarded an MBA. He was granted patents for the development of chemical purification and extraction equipment, for formulations of water treatment tablets and for development of chlorination equipment. He wrote There is Always a Better Way: Manufacturing Support materials for Medical Device and Similar Industries based on his work experiences.
Ulick researches and writes about topics of interest especially related to development of Africa. For this project he translated and published Battista Grassi’s Studies of a Zoologist about Malaria (2023).