Primitive Ways and Repellent Methods

While those in more civilised regions trust to prayer, the profit motive and occasional injections of sunlight and disinfectant, researchers in Uganda may have discovered a merely practical measure to prevent disease. Experimental treatment of traditional cloth wraps with insect repellent cut rates of malaria by two-thirds: a result which, lest further funding be correspondingly reduced, one researcher hastened to describe as a "business opportunity." The insecticide used in the experiment is "dirt cheap;" so it is fortunate that so few of the larger business opportunists care much about preventing malaria in Africa, or it wouldn't stay cheap very long.