Malaria and climate change : special feature
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2009
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Commonwealth Secretariat: Pro-Brook Publishing, GB
Abstract
Malaria is a disease that involves humans, mosquitoes, the plasmodium parasite and climate. It is a disease that affects
millions of people particularly in the tropical region. About 90% of the reported malaria cases worldwide come from
Africa1. There are several species of anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malaria however, the most efficient of these
vectors are found in Africa and these are namely Anopheles gambiae, An. arabiensis and An. funestus. Two of these
vectors An. gambiae and An. funestus more than 90% of their blood meals from human beings thus optimizing the
chance of transmitting the malaria parasite.
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CLIMATE CHANGE, COMMONWEALTH MINISTERS, MALARIA CONTROL, AFRICA