Bill and Melinda Gates have been spending enormous sums of $ fighting malaria worldwide.
But...
There are reports of drug-resistant strains of malaria appearing in some villages
where treatment efforts had been sufficient to reduce the incidence of the disease.
But also, with some success in treatment also comes complacency.
Funding for the bed-nets has dropped so primary prevention will drop too.
Were I to be one to approve mega-funding for malaria, I'd look to the geneticists
who are developing the "one-size-fits-all" influenza vaccine containing
all of the various mutant genes that are in the flu genome.
In any case, I hope but doubt malaria will be "conquered" in the lifetime of any current generation.
