{"author":"T.K. Naliaka","author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka","total_quotes":35,"quotes":[{"text":"If people's night fears of sorcery - which negatively influences their decision to use mosquito nets - fail to impress the outsider, the brute everyday reality remains; in a number of rural African villages it is still much too common for very real hyenas to snatch people, especially children, out of their own homes as they lie sleeping at night, because of the lack of a good front door.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["africa","behavioral-change","behaviors","constraints","hyenas","malaria","malaria-eradication","mosquito-net","predation","public-health","security","villages"],"id":13251,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"Malaria prevention and eradication should be inspired by General George Patton’s advice: “A good plan executed violently today is better than a perfect plan in a week.” In this war of attrition, millions of people will be lost while waiting on researchers to finally emerge triumphant from their labs with the perfect malaria cure; yet meanwhile, there are plenty of time-proven, practical actions that individuals, families and communities can do today with what is already in hand that can decisively defeat malaria transmission if applied with vigor and disciplined consistency.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["discipline","george-patton","individual-responsibility","malaria","public-health"],"id":30456,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["africa","disease-prevention","malaria","malaria-eradication","public-health","vector-control"],"id":53588,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"If it is considered speaking knowledgeably about malaria by having spent a few weeks traveling into malaria endemic zones and fallen sick from being infected with it, then what is it considered by having lived in the very same malaria endemic zones for years without being infected by it?","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["common-sense","endemic","expert-status","health","knowledge-acquisition","malaria"],"id":75844,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["2015","africa","disease-control","ebola","epidemics","irony","lessons-learned","medical-research","medical-treatment","public-health","success"],"id":84777,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"Africa is a huge continent; it would take several lifetimes of thousands of researchers testing in hundreds of languages to collect a valid sample of anything, especially IQ. Most Africans do their schooling in a second language, not their mother tongue. How many people would accept to be tested for their IQ level not in their primary language?","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["africa","education","intelligence","iq","multilingual","testing"],"id":85554,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"Most people around here prefer undead drivers, so I never get a chance to make any money on steady contracts.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["action-adventure","hindustan","india","taxi","undead"],"id":90208,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["aedes-aegypti","anopheles-gambiae","common-sense","contagious-diseases","containment","disease-control","ebola","ebola-spread","effectiveness","eradication","health","malaria-spread","public-health","travel","yellow-fever","yellow-fever-spread","zika-spread"],"id":118864,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["discipline","grammar","rhetoric","teachers","training"],"id":128082,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"It's a lot like the Wild West out here... Just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["action-adventure","africa","sahara","tea","wild-west"],"id":128592,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}