'Dodgy dossier' partly to blame for failure of war against malaria in the tropics
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 11:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The war against malaria in tropical countries was fought and lost in the 20th Century on the basis of faulty intelligence, a 'dodgy dossier' which argued that the same methods used to tackle the disease in temperate countries would also work in the tropics.