Author: ulick

WHO and other organisations promote the use of insecticide treated bednets (ITN) to prevent malaria. The use of nets is based on the hypothesis that malaria is spread by mosquito bites and nets prevent bites. Insecticide treated nets not only prevent a mosquito from biting someone sleeping underneath but also kill any insect that lands […]

I am still unemployed in my search for engineering work. So, I am considering how I could find gainful employment exploiting my status as Planet Earth’s leading expert on the null hypothesis that mosquitos do not spread malaria. Direct research on the topic does not seem probable because all malaria funding is from businesses trying […]

A study in Malaria World this week ‘Assessment of malaria treatment interventions: a critical analysis of government initiatives and causes of treatment failure at Port Loko Government Hospital, Sierra Leone’ by Sao Babawo et al has useful information on important factors for malaria occurrence and the ineffectiveness of the conventional treatments. Healthcare workers and women […]

At a social gathering in Nairobi this week the subject of Malaria prophylaxis was raised and I said nothing. And it bothers me. A European, who does not take anything to prevent malaria in Nairobi, asked some Kenyans about getting malaria tablets for a trip to Mozambique. They discussed that tablets could be obtained and […]

A few articles caught the eye in Malaria World this week. Firstly, the US FDA has placed a clinical hold on COVID vaccine maker, BioNTech’s early-to-mid stage trial of an experimental RNA malaria vaccine. Curiously, no reason was given for the hold on the Phase I/IIa study testing BNT165e in nearly 180 healthy and malaria-naïve […]

I continue my visit to Kenya (back in Nairobi) and by coincidence the most interesting article in Malaria World this week relates to Kenya and was carried out by researchers from KEMRI, whose meeting I reported recently. ‘Impact of Titanium Mining and Other Anthropogenic Activities on Malaria Positivity Rates and Parasitemia in Five Selected Study […]

I continue my stay in Kenya in Lodwar, Turkana, a desert area where many roads are like sand dunes and temperature usually reaches 40C each day. I was going to write about how annoying mosquitos are. One morning I awoke with five bites on my right little finger. I bought a bed net next day. […]

The gulf between me and the allopathic medical establishment (and its belief in germ theory) was very clear at the poster session of Kenya Medical Research Institutes Annual Scientific and Health Conference. Maurine Mwalo presented the paper by Obilo et al, ‘Updating Malaria Risk-Map of Kenya Through Diagnosis of Asymptomatic Malaria-Infected Individuals’. Just 3.6% of […]

On 12 February I attended Kenya Medical Research Institutes Annual Scientific and Health Conference (11-14 Feb) which had sessions on malaria. The conference was held in the magnificent Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi and included plenty of food and a lovely lunch. And I got a nice bag (picture). However, this was very much a […]

I continue my visit to Kenya, now in Nairobi, and have now seen and been bitten by mosquitos. Unpleasant, but not a disease threat. With a planned visit the Turkana the article in Malaria World reporting ‘Prevention Trial Cuts Malaria Cases in Children by 70 Percent’ by a team from Duke University led by Duke […]