Yesterday i stumbled on another Grid project recently kicked off that targets Malaria specifically malariacontrol.net. HPF2 is having malaria as one of its main focusses. Is this overlapping crunching, competitive crunching, niche research or concerted from different angles?

The home page there starts off with "The malariacontrol.net project is an application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

PS, malaria was present in the northern countries in 16/17/18 century....it was very present around Rome until the marches were pumped dry mid last century and musquito's bcame a rarity......and if you've ever been south east of Milan these days or for that matter in the Po flat.....possible it will return with global heating.