'Dodgy Dossier' Partly To Blame For Failure Of War Against Malaria In The Tropics
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 10:22
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.