Mundus Group, Inc. Studies Potential for VTOL UAV to Provide Increased Capabilities in Fight Against Malaria
26 October 2010 - 11:00PM
Mundus Group Inc. (Pink Sheets:MNDP), studies potential for VTOL
UAV to provide increased capabilities in fight against Malaria and
disease spread through mosquitoes with precision aerial laser
eradication treatments.
In an effort to prevent the spread of malaria, scientists have
built a laser that shoots and kills mosquitoes. In the early 1980s,
the anti-mosquito laser was originally introduced by astrophysicist
Lowell Wood, but the idea never took off. More recently,
former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold revived the laser idea
when Chairman Bill Gates asked him to explore new ways of combating
malaria. Currently, astrophysicist Jordin Kare from the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Wood, Myhrvold, and other
experts have developed a handheld laser that can locate individual
mosquitoes and kill them one by one. The developers hope that the
technology might be used to create a laser barrier around a house
or village that could kill or blind the insects.
Alternatively, flying drones equipped with anti-mosquito
lasers could track the insects with radar and then sweep the sky
with the laser.
Efforts to eradicate malaria by eliminating mosquitoes have been
successful in some areas. Malaria was once common in the United
States and southern Europe, but vector control programs, in
conjunction with the monitoring and treatment of infected humans
eliminated it from those regions. In some areas, the draining of
wetland breeding grounds and better sanitation were considered
adequate. Malaria was eliminated from most parts of the United
States in the early 20th century by such methods. The use of
the pesticide DDT and other means in essence eliminated the Malaria
from the remaining pockets of the South by 1951. In 2002, there
were 1,059 cases of Malaria reported in the United States,
including eight (8) deaths, but in only five (5) of those cases,
was the disease contracted in the United States.
Before DDT, Malaria was successfully eradicated or controlled
also in several tropical areas by removing or poisoning the
breeding grounds of the mosquitoes or the aquatic habitats of the
larva stages. These methods have seen little application in Africa
for more than half a century. An even more futuristic method of
vector control is the idea that lasers could be used to kill flying
mosquitoes.
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by a
parasite. People with Malaria often experience fever, chills, and
flu-like illness. Left untreated, they may develop severe
complications and die. In 2008, an estimated 190 - 311 million
cases of Malaria occurred worldwide and 708,000 - 1,003,000 people
died, most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Communicable Disease Center, (also known as
"CDC"). CDC's mission began at its inception on July 1, 1946,
to combat malaria. Thus, much of the early work done by CDC was
concentrated on the control and elimination of Malaria in the
United States. With the successful reduction of Malaria
in the United States, the CDC switched its Malaria focus from
elimination efforts to prevention, surveillance and technical
support both domestically and internationally. This is still
the focus of CDC's malaria work today.
Elimination of Malaria in the United States
(1947-1951)
The National Malaria Eradication Program, a cooperative
undertaking by state and local health agencies of 13 Southeastern
states and the CDC, originally proposed by Louis Laval Williams,
commenced operations on July 1, 1947. By the end of 1949, over
4,650,000 house spray applications had been made. In 1947, 15,000
malaria cases were reported. By 1950, only 2,000 cases were
reported. By 1951, malaria was considered eliminated from the
United States.
Sources: http://www.cdc.gov/MALARIA/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria
http://www.physorg.com/news156423566.html
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