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 "The best opportunity probably existed in 1955, the year Mr. Gates
was born and the year the W.H.O. said it would eradicate malaria. With
weapons then new, DDT and chloroquine, a fast-acting synthetic
quinine, annual deaths were driven down below 500,000.

But as an old bitter joke among parasitologists goes: "We didn't wipe
out malaria. We wiped out malariologists." It was working so well that
young scientists chose other fields.

Then, slowly, it fell apart. Chloroquine-resistant parasites and
pesticide-resistant mosquitoes emerged. Rachel Carson's 1962 book
"Silent Spring" made DDT a pariah.

And the world changed. Before the 1960s, colonial governments and
companies fought malaria because their officials often lived in remote
outposts like Nigeria's hill stations and Vietnam's Marble Mountains.
Independence movements led to freedom, but also often to civil war,
poverty, corrupt government and the collapse of medical care. [...]"

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