“Last week, the World Health Organization certified Egypt as malaria-free, confirming that no known person has contracted malaria from within Egypt’s borders during the last three years. This makes Egypt the 44th country to eliminate malaria, a disease that has plagued humanity for millennia. Egypt has a particularly long history with the parasite. Archeological evidence suggests Egyptians have suffered from malaria since at least 3200 BC, and a recent meta-analysis of Egyptian mummies found that up to 22 percent tested positive for Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest species of malaria parasite,” notes the Cato Institute.
The BBC notes that the elimination of malaria has been hailed as “truly historic. ‘Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilization itself, but the disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to its history,’ said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Egyptian authorities launched their first efforts to stamp out the deadly mosquito-borne infectious disease nearly 100 years ago….Malaria kills at least 600,000 people every year, nearly all of them in Africa.”
Millions of people in other parts of Africa are receiving a life-saving malaria vaccine.
Drones are fighting malaria in the western part of the African nation of Kenya.
Drones are also providing vaccines to immunize hundreds of thousands of children in the west African nation of Ghana, protecting them against potentially lethal diseases.
Zimbabwe is eradicating a disease that is the leading infections cause of blindness.
Kenyan farmers are using artificial intelligence to produce more food. Zambia used artificial intelligence to find more mineral wealth.
Drones with artificial intelligence are making life easier for some farmers in the United States. Robots with artificial intelligence are spreading on Japanese farms. In the U.S., farming robots now use artificial intelligence to kill 100,000 weeds per hour.
Scientists have developed tiny robots made of human cells to repair damaged cells. Nanorobots are also being used to fight cancer by cutting off the blood supply of tumors.
