According to the
Mayo Clinic, some 290 million people are infected with malaria annually and at least 400,000 people die of the disease each year predominantly young children, the elderly and the infirm making it the world’s most pervasive parasitic disease. Symptoms involve ongoing cyclical “attacks chills and shivering followed by fevers followed by chills followed by fevers.
“Safe, effective, affordable vaccines could play a critical role in defeating malaria,” Dr Robert Newman, Director of WHO’s
Global Malaria Program said in 2013. ”Despite all the recent progress countries have made, and despite important innovations in diagnostics, drugs and vector control, the global burden of malaria remains unacceptably high.”
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You can t help but conjure images of
Game of Throne s icy White Walkers silently marching ahead through the snowy Siberian landscape at the mention of bringing back to life ancient, long dead warriors in icy Russia.
Well, alright, they wouldn t quite be brought back to life in that way, but the imagery is fun.
All jokes aside, when speaking with the Russian Geographical Society in mid April, Shoigu mentioned that it would be possible to make something of it, if not Dolly the Sheep, reported
Sputnik News. That it Shoigu mentions refers to the ancient DNA of Scythian warriors that s been lying preserved in permafrost in Siberia s tundra.