Summary:
So, looking at the lean season numbers today, it is clear that we are well on course of the doom’s day scenario that I have often described in this column. So, dear little knowlesi is just a symbol of what is going to hit us in future and I want to use it to ask a question. So, it is highly unlikely that we are future-ready to face epidemics that are inevitably going to arrive here. vivax, falciparum, malariae and ovale; but now we have a new entrant to this august list from Southeast Asia in form of knowlesi, a pathogen that has jumped from monkeys into man. This means that more and more mosquitoes will be available to pass through the lean period of winter..