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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
Model projections (which entail necessary simplifying assumptions) indicate that the geographical zone of potential malaria transmission would expand in response to global mean temperature increases at the upper part ... % by the latter half of the next century. Areas where malaria is currently endemic could experience intensified transmission (on the order of 50-80 million additional annual cases, ...
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The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
Tmin is known to play an important role in limiting the distribution of malaria vector populations at a given locality where summer conditions are suitable for transmission ... and complicated malaria is anemia. Thus, the potential exists for exacerbated morbidity and mortality in regions in which climate change may decrease nutritional status and increase malaria transmission. Climate ...
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Global Climate Change: Research Explorer - Global Effects
Values - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Global Change Science Climate Modeling Initiative Risk of Malaria Transmission - Pim Martens, Maastricht University Sample Forecasts of Future Temperature Change - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint ...
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Global Climate Change: Research Explorer - Global Effects
Malaria Transmission Malaria is caused by a parasite that develops to maturity inside certain species of mosquitoes. When the mosquitoes bite, they transmit the parasite. If global temperatures climb, the risk of malaria ... full, printable version of the glossary. Risk of Malaria Transmission - This map displays the projected risk of malaria transmission in the year 2020, compared with the average ...
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Environmental Health Perspectives 103-5, 1995: Article by Martens et al.
Assessment of the potential impact of global climate change on the incidence of malaria suggests a widespread increase of risk due to expansion of the areas suitable for malaria transmission. This predicted increase is most pronounced at the borders of endemic malaria ...
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Global Warming in Africa
Kenyan highlands where the population had previously been unexposed. 17. Tanzania -- Malaria expands in mountains. Higher annual temperatures in the Usamabara Mountains have been linked to expanding malaria transmission ...
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Global Climate Change: Research Explorer: Primer: Overview of Climate Change Research : Biosphere
(See “Risk of Malaria Transmission” on this site to learn about another potential health risk.) And ...
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Infectious Disease - Vector Control & Malaria Page 2
Antiretrovirals & The HIV Pandemic Vector Control & Malaria VECTOR CONTROL & MALARIA The Ongoing Chain of Malaria Infection 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Malaria parasites survive by successfully infecting two ... and strong preference for humans. This insect makes malaria transmission ten to twenty times more efficient than measles. Anopheles mosquito Malaria persists through an unbroken chain of infection between ...
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Malaria in Virginia
Malaria in Virginia Malaria in Virginia A case of malaria reported in Virginia last week prompted us to review our malaria research file and put in a call to Dr. Paul Reiter, tropical ... ) which transmit disease are affected by climate. Climate change would, in aggregate, increase the potential transmission of many vector-borne diseases." Mr. Reiter said he was concerned that attention was being ...
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Malaria: It's Not Neglected Any More
DDT alone could not wipe out malaria in Africa, where intensity of transmission was higher (year-round in many areas) and infrastructure was poor. ... transmission: Implications for malaria control and elimination worldwide.'' PLoS Med 5(2): e38. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050038 Drug Resistance: Liability and Opportunity One of the biggest threats to malaria ...
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