Malaria and climate change : special feature

dc.contributor.author	Githeko, Andrew Karanja
dc.date.accessioned	2010-06-30T14:19:43Z
dc.date.available	2010-06-30T14:19:43Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.description.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.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10625/44031
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Commonwealth Secretariat: Pro-Brook Publishing, GB	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Commonwealth health ministers' update 2009	en
dc.subject	CLIMATE CHANGE	en
dc.subject	COMMONWEALTH MINISTERS	en
dc.subject	MALARIA CONTROL	en
dc.subject	AFRICA	en
dc.title	Malaria and climate change : special feature	en
dc.type	Book Chapter	en
idrc.copyright.holder	Andrew Karanja Githeko
idrc.copyright.oapermissionsource	OA Permission License	en
idrc.dspace.access	Open Access	en
idrc.project.number	104707
idrc.project.title	Transferring the Malaria Epidemic Prediction Model to Users in East Africa	en
idrc.rims.adhocgroup	IDRC SUPPORTED	en

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