We don't need it

Now I'm worried… yesterday called to the lab to see a smear on a 16 year old with fever and chills… 3+ Plasmodium falciparum… we've had an inexplicable lull in malaria cases for 3 months… but over the last week starting to pick up again… with intermittant pesticide fulmigation we could be turning a hyper-endemic area into an unstable one with inadequate background immunity for many adults making them susceptible to severe attacks of malaria. This on top of a rapid rise in dengue cases. We don't need it.

Dr Dan Murphy is the head physician at Bairo Pite Clinic