Political goodwill and financial support for disease control depends on the demand which in turn depends upon adequate health education. Is the community able to confront its problems appropriately? What measures like vaccination and vector control are truely applicable? Are vector control measures being manipulated in sly ways to control the human population explosion. No, but problems are ignored.
The heros of malaria, like Walter Reed (yellow fever) were army doctors. Alphonse Laveran discovered the malaria parasite in the blood in Algeria in 1880. Working in India, Ronald Ross, finally found the mosquito stage of this parasite in 1897. Incidentally, the protection of invading troops rather than native populations has been the concern for 2 centuries. Temperate nations may only respond to malaria as a traveler’s disease.