Malaria, one of the world’s most prominent public health challenges, is on the move.
A new study based on previous predictions of where malaria in children may appear suggests that climate change is redrawing the map of malaria’s spread across the African continent. The data, reported July 29 in Nature , show a gradual shift from West and Central Africa toward the eastern and southern regions, consistent with global warming.
Increased temperatures may mean a more hostile environment for disease-carrying mosquitoes in the West and Central regions and a more favorable climate in the eastern and southern regions, says Romaric Odoulami, a…
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