m00kie
Yes, Nurse Ratched
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join:2000-09-11 | reply to Minvaren
Re: Malaria Control
I've read that malaria kills 2 million people a year. Definitely a project I'd be interested in. |
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Starfish
Per Ardua Ad Astra
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| said by m00kie  :I've read that malaria kills 2 million people a year. Definitely a project I'd be interested in. Ditto here.
Maleria has an enormous impact. Looking at some of the the facts, it's even bigger than I initially thought:
"At least 500 million people are infected each year in the world, resulting in more than a million deaths [...]"
500 million people.. that's about 6-7% of the total world population... every year! Next to of course all the tragic deaths, it also is an heavy economical burden on many countries :
"Malaria has been estimated to cost Africa more than $US 12 billion every year in lost GDP."
Using BOINC, the number of computers below working on research could easily be increased by a great amount:
"The Swiss Tropical Institute has developed a computer model for malaria epidemiology and harnessed its in-house PC capacity, about 40 machines, to do preliminary studies. "
I'm certainly going to attach this project to my BOINC client when new accounts can be created. |
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cow116
Cisco Kid
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clubs: | 500 million people..... the population of the US |
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Starfish
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| said by cow116 :500 million people..... the population of the US It's even almost 1.7 times the current US population (~299mln)... but indeed, still an enormous number of people.
Before reading this on the project's website, I would never have expected so find a number that high!
I really hope that this project can make a useful contribution and I'm looking forward to the moment when account creation will be enabled again. |
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