Malaria Deaths May Be Double WHO Estimates

A new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation suggests that the number of malaria deaths in 2010 was twice as high as the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate of 655,000. The discrepancy stems largely from the fact that previous studies, operating on the faulty assumption that malaria mainly kills the very young, overlooked hundreds of thousands of deaths. Data compiled in the new study indicate that 42 percent of malaria deaths occur in older children and adults. Still, both the new study and the WHO agree that malaria deaths overall are on the decline. More...

@ FounDit..That is the first thing I thought of. I remember reading that WHO's banning of DDT (before an effective replacement could be found) caused the death of over a million people from Malaria. It has been said that evil is 'compulsive destruction' and that is what we get when the news media acts as the PR agent and hit man for the lunatics in government. The same lunacy occurred in the San Joaquin a couple of summers ago when they cut off the water supply to the most productive farm lands in the country to save a minnow that was not even native to the area. Many farm workers and farmers were almost driven to extinction.