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Climate change causes malaria to 'creep up' to higher altitudes putting millions more at risk

2014-03-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Business Times: In 2012, an estimated 660,000 people worldwide died from malaria, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite increased prevention and control measures that have decreased malaria mortality rates by more than 23 percent since 2000, experts say that climate change will put millions more people at risk of contracting the deadly mosquito-borne disease. Scientists have speculated for some time that climate change will push mosquitoes, which thrive in warm environments, into areas that were previously...

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