Every year, over 400 million African mothers, fathers and children are stricken by acute malaria. That’s as many victims as there are people in the United States and Mexico combined.

Fevers, chills, vomiting, diarrhea, delirium and unconsciousness leave them unable to work, cultivate ?elds, attend school or care for their families for weeks on end. Many are permanently brain damaged. Nearly 1 million die. No wonder sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most impoverished regions on Earth.

Every year, Africa Malaria Day (April 25) is marked by promises to bring malaria under control. But every year calls for action turn out to be mere bombast, as healthcare agencies refuse to go beyond bed nets and “capacity building,” radical greens continue to obstruct proven strategies, and disease and death rates climb.

This year, however, things may be different.

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