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April 27, 2004

Not "will", "is likely to"

Satellites can pinpoint where malaria will strike

Just a little correction there for the boys and girls at the Huntsville Times. The satellite pictures can't actually predict malaria. What they do is predict where weather condidtions will be ripe for mosquitoes. Getting the alerts out in poor areas in Africa or southern India is a whole other problem.

Posted by Mac Thomason at April 27, 2004 03:06 PM

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