||1: Mr Gates is only malaria’s latest adversary. The parasite has plagued man for millennia. ||2: Chinese texts from 2700BC describe plants to treat its fevers. ||3: More recently, in 1955, the WHO embarked on its first malaria-eradication effort. ||4: But transmission rates in Africa seemed intractable. ||5: After 14 years the WHO gave up. ||6: The last time the world tried to eliminate malaria, some scientists lament, the world eliminated malariologists .
||1: Mr Gates is only malaria's latest adversary. The parasite has plagued man for millennia. Chinese texts from 2700BC describe plants to treat its fevers. ||2: More recently, in 1955, the WHO embarked on its first malaria-eradication effort. ||3: But transmission rates in Africa seemed intractable. ||4: After 14 years the WHO gave up. ||5: The last time the world tried to eliminate malaria, some scientists lament, the world eliminated malariologists .