What Poor Africans Need: Anti-Malaria Fashion
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 04:00
in Biology & Nature
Poor people in developing nations have been caught in a cultural tug-of-war over how to best keep them from dying of Malaria. What they need to break the impasse between anti-science acolytes who think "Silent Spring" had any science in it and corporate chemical manufacturers is...a fashion show.Frederick Ochanda, postdoctoral associate in Cornell's Department of Fiber Science&Apparel Design and a native of Kenya, teamed up with Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell apparel design undergraduate from Gambia, to create a hooded bodysuit embedded at the molecular level with insecticides for warding off mosquitoes infected with malaria, a disease estimated to kill 655,000 people annually on the continent. read more