Chris wrote:
more to the point - how does using nets actually eliminate a disease? Surely that will only control it...
Actually there is a very good case for providing nets - they are cheap and easy to use, and result in dramatic drops in infection rates. Compare that to the amounts of money spent on a vaccine that may never work (tho the money spent is a lot less than that spent on cardiovascular disease or diabetes - "Western" rich country diseases).
Gordon Brown is a numpty.
