Cholera and Malaria Epidemics (3)
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Disease Control Textiles wrote:
> We never move into a new field of disease control without thorough and
> proper tests, and the approval of the cholera filter has been conducted
> by Maryland University. This university has a long tradition and record
> of working with cholera. We have a long record of working with filter
> materials, like filters for guinea worms, schistosomiasis and other in-
> testinal parasites. The combination of knowledge has produced the chol-
> era filter, but we have not tested the filter on people in the process.
> It was only used by humans when we knew it worked.
Could you give a list of published works performed as part of the
tests conducted by the Maryland University? Were those studies cited
in the literature and how often (research impact)?
Did you perform macro-analysis modelling for the combination of fac-
tors such as the probability of filter's malfunction?
The same question could apply to other fields: the prophylactic in-
dustry was in early studies mostly concerned in sponsoring research
demonstrating the capacity of latex membranes to stop HIV viruses.
One would wish that the same industries would allocate a part of
their research wealth at modelling ways to optimise and/or better un-
derstand how condoms were/are/will be employed.
Would your company (Disease Control Textiles) consider supporting in-
dependent field studies to check the field efficiency of your fil-
ters?
How much money could your company practically donate? Would you con-
sider supporting local Ph.D. students in Mozambique to perform inde-
pendent research on cholera or malaria (outside contractual knowledge
sharing)?
Christian Labadie
mailto:CLabadie@t-online.de
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