Really amazing how Peter99 manages to turn any topic into a platform for his anger at the rest of the world. GoKunming starts to look even more grim then Breitbart.com.
Now normally I ignore his ranting but this time I take it serious because it becomes a personal attack. (And that is not because I am, or ever was, a UN worker.)

aving worked in the fight against malaria and having worked in Laos I know that there is malaria there. Better medication and the availability of medication have created a significant drop in malaria. Because of this the efforts to control the vector are waning. This explains as well the rise in other vector transmitted diseases like Dengue.

Also some years ago, during malaria season, up to 15% of my workforce (A UXO clearing project) in Laos could be out with malaria (This was before the use of Artemisinin based combination therapy.) Indeed in Vientiane I never came across malaria but in the rural area we worked in this was a different story.

Also I rate the change that one would contract malaria in Laos small it is not so that this is impossible. Starting early with treatment after infection and the use of prophylactics in malaria prone area is still a good thing to do so carrying your own supply is advisable.

Like anywhere else there are some lazy UN workers and they might hang out in brothels and they might drive a SUV this does not mean that they are the source of misinformation and have an interest in keeping this misinformation going. It is often more the other way around in the sense that authorities hush up all kind of diseases in their territory because it makes them look not in control and hinders investments.

Most of the work against malaria is done by underfunded groups with limited means. The malaria project I did was based on one old truck and a fleet of bicycles and staff that was motivated by their own experience of malaria. We were happy that the UN (In this case WHO) handled the data we provided and not some bureaucrat that for political reasons filed our data in the bin.

Misinformation is created by those who write: been there didn’t know anybody with malaria so it does not exist. This is called anecdotal evidence. At the same time they quote from Breitbart and see zombies everywhere and think the world will be taken over by queer Prozac popping zombies.

It is very hard to get anti malarials in Kunming.
If there is any posibility of malaria in the area you are goig to then they sell

anti malaria medication there as well. So buy it on the spot.

Typically women. Change money and go shoe shopping ;-)
See: www.gokunming.com/[...]

In the mens section.

Fee much lower than at the airport and better exchange rates.
For rates see:
www.boc.cn/sourcedb/whpj/enindex.html