Most detailed malaria map ever highlights hope and challenges facing global community
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 10:50
in Biology & Nature
The most detailed map ever created of malaria risk worldwide is published today by an international team of researchers funded by the Wellcome Trust. The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) will be a powerful tool for helping target malaria control programmes and suggests that elimination of malaria in three-quarters of the world's at-risk areas might be less difficult than previously thought...