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I don't know about that... We know how to eradicate malaria -- we posess the knowledge, the tools, we've successfully done it before. Really, the only thing that needs to happen is for the governments of the SubSaharan Africa to get their shit together. That, unfortunately, is not a medical problem.
How do you propose to eradicate malaria?
The same way it was done in the US. Or even in, say, Sri Lanka -- a country that was having a very long and bloody civil war in the process.
Draining swamps is contingent on geography. It is just not an option in Africa.
So, how much malaria is there in the swamps of Everglades and Okeechobee?
Besides, which geography prevents swamp draining in, say, Kenya or Tanzania?