Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.
Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans - just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger.
If people's night fears of sorcery - which negatively influences their decision to use mosquito nets - fail to impress the outsider, the brute everyday reality remains; in a number of rural African vi...
Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.