This is truly a tragedy. Malaria infects up to 500 million people annually and 2-3 million die from it. NGF members have been hoping for a breakthrough in creating a form of super malaria that would increase the death rate but getting support for that seems more than difficult.

Instead we now have a malaria proof mosquito and if the release of it is successful, malaria could end up being nothing more than a dream in an overpopulated world with billions of people desperately trying to find some sort of disease to put them out of their misery. Read the full story here

The shape and face of things to come

40% of the world’s population is at risk of being infected and 500 million are infected every year.

Malaraia kills 1 million people every year.  The vast majority of them are children, about 2000 per day.

So what is all the hype about?  Apparently in some sort of showdown between CNN and Ashton Kutcher to reach 1 million Twitter followers, Kutcher decided to promise a donation of 10,000 mosquito bed nets to protect people from being bitten by mosquitos carrying malaria while they sleep.  CNN also agreed to make a donation, even if they lost.

The sheer silliness of the whole thing with Kutcher broadcasting live on the internet and Anderson Cooper on CNN was sad enough, but then Oprah decided to get in on the action and upped the anti with an offer for 20,000 nets.  Ryan Seacrest hopped on board for 10,000 and of course Kutcher’s couger wife had to outdoo her husband and put up for 20,000 nets.

That’s not all.  A $225 million fund to provide low-price anti-malaria medicine around the world was launched in the Norwegian capital of Oslo.

The world has certainly changed.  No longer do you need a bunch of celebrities to get into a recording studio for a silly song in order to try and save the world.  Now it just takes a few tweets.

Well we can do the same.  Follow us on Twitter and then go outside and give a big FU to the WHO by letting some mosquitos have dinner.