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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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Climate change could cause malaria "creep up mountains"
2014-03-07 10:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Warmer temperatures caused by climate change could significantly increase cases of malaria in parts of Africa and South America, researchers have warned today. A team of ecologists at the University of Michigan and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine claim to have the first hard evidence that incidences of malaria move to higher altitudes during warmer years and back down to lower regions when temperatures cool. By examining records of Malaria in highland regions in Ethiopia...
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Climate change could mean more malaria in Africa, study says
2014-03-07 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Future global warming could lead to a significant increase in malaria cases in densely populated regions of Africa and South America unless disease monitoring and control efforts are increased, researchers said on Thursday. In a study of the mosquito-borne disease that infects around 220 million people a year, researchers from Britain and the United States found what they describe as the first hard evidence that malaria creeps to higher elevations during warmer years and back down to lower altitudes...
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Global warming amplifying malaria risk
2014-03-07 07:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Global warming will expose millions more people to malaria as parasite-bearing mosquitoes move to higher altitudes, according to new research into the health perils from climate change. Tropical highland areas in Africa, Asia and central and southern America are particularly at risk, a study in the US journal Science said Thursday. Malaria, which killed an estimated 620,000 people in 2012, is among a host of diseases that researchers warn will spread more easily thanks to global warming. For...
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Warmer Temperatures Push Malaria to Higher Elevations
2014-03-06 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Researchers are reporting the first hard evidence that malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that infects more than 300 million people each year, creeps to higher elevations during warmer years and falls back down to lower altitudes when temperatures cool. "Traditionally, we think of malaria as a disease with limited prevalence in highland regions, but we are now seeing a shift due to climate change. Our latest research suggests that with progressive global warming, malaria will creep up the mountains...
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