Malaria Saves!

Apparently, Malaria is a preventative disease.


Good to know...up until now, I thought Malaria was a bad thing.


Good thing we have radio commercials. Lately, a local exterminating service has been running a series of ads detailing their involvement in a perfectly reasonable charity to distribute mosquito netting to families in Africa to reduce the spread of Malaria. This is all well and good, but in the commercial, the owner of the business describes Malaria as "A preventative disease."


I wonder what it prevents. Maybe it protects you from Bird Flu?


If that were the case, then I'd say this charity has it all backwards. We should be encouraging people to get bitten by mosquitoes, deal with the wholly treatable Malaria and be, at long last, protected from the deadly Avian Influenza.

More likely, the owner of this particular pest control business really means that Malaria is a Preventable disease, and just wanted to use a big word to impress people without first knowing what it means. Either way, I can't encourage the use of this particular exterminator service. Good grammar is a strangely important trait that I like to see in people spraying poisonous chemicals around my house.


That's fine...but won't the charity suffer?


Perhaps a bit. But, if you'd like to learn more about Malaria and the "Nothing But Nets" campaign, please visit Nothingbutnets.net.

This public service brought to you by "Jeremy Is In The Office"....and the people running the campaign, I guess.