[discostu]

And the media, tiring of SARS since it's obviously being brought under control everywhere but China, has focused on a new possbile panic source.

The 3000 children a day number must be fiction so I wouldn't sweat that one. And malaria isn't directly infectious, you cannot catch it from a person ever, it's a hopper via mesquitos. A couple ships full of raid should take care of the problem in short order.

[cogitator]

The 3000 children a day number must be fiction so I wouldn't sweat that one.

I did a bit of checking, and got two different numbers. One was 800,000 malaria deaths a year (not all children), which is just under 2200 a day. The other was a back-of- the-envelope calculation based on the "death every 30 seconds" colloquial statistic. That would be just under 2900 deaths a day, or just over 1 million a year.

Neither is very good.