[randog]

...funding...should be reallocated to old foes such as malaria and tuberculosis, and to water quality improvements.

OK, but you don't get a pretty ribbon with malaria, tuberculosis and water quality.

[brivette]

amen

[spetznaz]

OK, but you don't get a pretty ribbon with malaria, tuberculosis and water quality

Question: If it is due to malaria, TB and water-borne organisms, then how come most of the dead have been between the ages of 15-49? How come in the hardest hit areas (eg Uganda before they started intensive, and highly successful, abstinence/sex-ed programs ....and South Africa currently, which is still embroiled in a serious crisis) that many of the survivors are the very young and the very old? How come, using Uganda as an exampe again, there were whole villages where the only people present were children been taken care of by their grandparents?

The main victims of diseases like Malaria, as well as water-borne stuff like Bilharzia and Typhoid, are the very young and the very old. And the ones with the highest survival rates are adults. Yet how come that these prime victims (kids and the aged) are the same ones who are alive, and the highest-survival facet (adults) are being decimated?

I'd like to get a nice explanation about the strange antics of this strange 'malaria' and 'typhoid' trend in victim selection, because they are surely acting weird!

[patriciaruth]

The biggest reduction of disease in the U.S. came with chlorination of water.