Global Warming Unlikely To Spread Malaria

The widely held notion that warming global temperatures will lead to a future intensification of malaria and an expansion of its global range is at odds with the available evidence, according to a new study in Nature. The research, conducted by the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP), suggests that current interventions could have a far more dramatic – and positive – effect on reducing the spread of malaria than any negative effects caused by climate change. A steady stream of modeling studies have predicted that malaria will worsen and its range will spread as the world gets warmer. read more

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