Their ally, the World Wildlife Fund, is pressing for a total global ban by 2007. At least one expert, Dr. Donald R. Roberts of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, has challenged the environmentalists' plan. It is immoral. Malaria research underway Money is pouring into malaria research. The hope is to find a vaccine that will be 95 percent effective for at least six months.
Drugs designed with the aid of genome sequencers are probably a decade away.
Fortunately, artemisinins, used as herbal remedies in China for 2,000 years, look promising. Clinical trials were delayed, however, because the World Health Organization expressed concern about neurotoxicity in animals. That link, however, has always been a stretch. Even proponents of global warming theory now concede there would be remarkably few changes in mosquito distribution, even under the most extreme scenarios. A global energy-rationing regime, such as that proposed to address global warming, will not stop malaria.