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NEWS > HEALTH > GERMAN SCIENTISTS FIND CURE FOR MALARIA THAT THEY WILL PROBABLY KEEP TO THEMSELVES
GERMAN SCIENTISTS FIND CURE FOR MALARIA THAT THEY WILL PROBABLY KEEP TO THEMSELVES
January 23 2012
Potsdam, Germany – For years men have tried and failed to conquer the dark heart of Africa. That continent has been, and remains so, a mystery and challenge not only to the people who live there but also to adventurers the world over. No one has ever had real success there since human beings first emigrated 70,000 years ago despite the best efforts of a lot of very skilled people.
Not the great white hunters, not the locals, not even the formidable military machine of the Nazis was able to conquer the deepest parts of Africa and most of that had to do with one, little bug. Literally a bug, mosquitoes. That bug has ended more adventure in Africa than lions and Rhinos combined, killed more explorers, and decimated anyone who has sought to probe the deepest parts of the continent. Now though, a cure may be at hand.
It is, of course, not the mosquito itself that is the real issue. It is the blood diseases it carries, particularly malaria which even today kills more people than any other on the planet, one person ever 45 seconds in fact. Now though a cure may finally be at hand after a group of German scientists discovered a simple way of synthesizing the active ingredient in the one cure we have had, allowing mass production of a vaccine. The scientists, though, keeping the details under wraps, preferring it appears to only provide it to a select group of carefully chosen men and women under their command.
“The production of the drug is therefore no longer dependent on obtaining the active ingredient from plants. And we have developed a simple apparatus for this process, which enables the production of large volumes of the substance under very controlled conditions,” said lead researcher Peter H. Seeberger of the Freie Universität Berlin.
Shortly after the interview, Seeberger vanished along with a number of his colleagues. It is believed they are holed up in a secret bunker somewhere in Berlin.
The German government has not commented on the cure, but has begun massing men and equipment in discrete areas throughout the country.
“Malaria is easily the deadliest disease on the planet and a cure has been long in coming. Well, we have had a vaccine for years but it has been so expensive and so hard to produce that it was rendered effectively useless, particularly for those most affected,” said Scrape TV Health analyst Rebecca Phelps. “Now that no longer seems to be an obstacle. Unfortunately something else appears to be an obstacle and that 
may be much harder to overcome, particularly once the Germans get involved. It would have been fine if it were the Canadians or the Fins, but the Germans make this a different situation entirely.”
It’s not clear if production of the vaccine has begun or when it will begin to impact Africa.
“It’s very unfortunate that bleeding edge research such as this, the kind of stuff that can really change lives and the world, gets trapped in politics and greed. It happens often though, that is just one aspect of the dark heart of the human animal,” continued Phelps. “One way or the other the people of Africa are going to feel the effects of this discovery. Hopefully they don’t put up much resistance to its implementation, because that could cause a real tragedy much worse than the disease.”
German has reportedly begun moving special envoys en masse to various locations throughout Africa in preparation for something.
Lauren Hebert, Health Correspondent
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