Portland Daily Sun covers UNE lecture by James Webb on 'The Trouble with Malaria in Africa'

The Portland Daily Sun published a story on a Jan. 28th lecture by James L. A. Webb, Jr. who spoke on 'The Trouble with Malaria in Africa,'  hosted at the UNE Portland Campus by the UNE Center for Global Humanities. 

Webb, director of African Studies at Colby College, argued that one of the greatest challenges to health officials was a medical irony: concerted efforts of combining drugs for the affected population with insecticides aimed at malaria-carrying mosquitoes were extremely successful. But the disease has never been fully eradicated. Read the story.

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