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Old June 12th 05, 05:14 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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A subsequent analysis by experts at the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine concluded that changes in land use and socio-economic
trends made the risk "highly unlikely". Oddly, the lifting of this
eco-threat was not widely reported. "

Further to the return of Malaria to England,. I've always been under the
understanding that mosquito carrying malaria disappeared when areas like

the
Fenlands were drained and stagnant water engineered away.


interesting but the environmentalists are demanding more wetlands, and under
various agri-environmental schemes they are being produced. In agriculture
some people are wondering how long before they are re-drained because of a
malaria threat

Jim Webster