Why has malaria come back when it was almost stopped?

Question

tnx guys

Answer 1

The Malaria mosquito has never gone away, but people have started to ignore advice about taking malaria pills before travelling. I reckon its a man-made problem.

Its like all these infectious diseases we got as kids, most have been irradicated until a couple of years ago, reason?
They stopped getting their kids vaccinated because of the tiny percentage that are brain damaged after having the shots.

Answer 2

We were never close to stopping malaria, but we were able to control it to a degree. Lot of the pesticide that was used to control the mosquitos that spreads malaria is no longer legal. This allows the mosquito population to rebound. Also there has been less funding and the people are now less vigilant in controling mosquitos. People in the tropics are again forgetting the lessens learned in the pass like never leave open water.

Answer 3

Malaria has never been stopped. It is possible that use of the toxic insecticide DDT reduced the numbers of mosquito vectors that could transmit malaria and that lead you to believe that malaria had diminished (but it did not stop). Global warming has increased the breeding cycles of mosquitoes that can carry Malaria and other diseases so the combination of slow disintigration of toxic DDT and increased mosquito breeding due to global warming has given the impression of return of malaria to numbers of cases that are hard to ignore.