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I've never used a mosquito net for sleeping, just the kind that hangs on a hat over your face for hiking. Can't they bite through ones like the picture at the top of the article, if your skin is against the net?

Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 12- 9-14 8:19 AM

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Yes, you're not supposed to sleep touching the net.

Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12- 9-14 8:23 AM

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Great stuff. And when they've finished off malaria they can start on schistosomiasis.

Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 12- 9-14 8:31 AM

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and some seriously effective birth control. Or else.

Posted by: biohazard | Link to this comment | 12- 9-14 9:33 AM

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3. At least they've almost eradicated Guinea Worm Disease, aka Dracunculiasis*. That's a pretty gross parasitic infestation that affected over a million people and is now down to 100 or so cases per year; mostly, alas, in South Sudan.

*(Also a good candidate for anagrams including the word "Dracula.")

Posted by: DaveLMA | Link to this comment | 12- 9-14 11:08 AM

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Dracunculiasis* (Also a good candidate for anagrams including the word "Dracula.")

I dunno, can you really spell much with the letters N, C, U, I, S, I, S?

The best I can come up with is terrible: I SIN DRACULA SUC

Posted by: urple | Link to this comment | 12- 9-14 12:33 PM

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What do you find at Sunnydale Hospital?
Draculas in ICUs

Posted by: Scomber mix | Link to this comment | 12- 9-14 2:37 PM

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Great Daily Mail clickbait headline!

Also suggested: "Dracula ICU sins."

Posted by: DaveLMA | Link to this comment | 12-10-14 6:13 AM