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- upliftingnews@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- upliftingnews@lemmy.world
With no recorded cases since 2017, the archipelago has had a long journey to become free of the disease, which killed 608,000 people globally in 2022
Cape Verde has become the fourth country in Africa and the 44th in the world to eliminate malaria.
Africa has the highest number of cases of the mosquito-borne disease in the world. In 2022, 94% of the 249 million cases globally and 95% of deaths were recorded on the continent.
Algeria, Morocco and Mauritius were certified malaria-free in 2019, 2010 and 1973 respectively.
Cape Verde regularly experienced severe epidemics across all the archipelago’s 10 islands. However, since the 1980s, malaria had been confined to only two islands, Santiago and Boa Vista, both of which have not recorded cases since 2017.
Where do you find statistics about something evaluative like that? Who gets to decide what’s good or bad for the sake of the statistics, and what’s the unit of measurement?
I’d add that a failure to appreciate the good is not only due to the media’s fondness for what distresses us, but also because there is always some crisis to worry about, and the present is the only time that contains active worries for us. The past crises aren’t active and don’t distress us so much any more. So the present always feels uniquely problematic, but it’s a kind of illusion of perspective.
That said, we are killing the planet, and we’ve never done that before. So perhaps we do have a different level of crisis right now.