Climate Change and the spread of malaria

This is and will be a big and very difficult future topic once the climate actually goes down hill in a way we as humankind notice notably. Why? Well because the developing world will and is feeling this impact many times as strong . Therefore topics such as access to medicine, disease prevention and access to fresh drinking water will all have a very strong relation to climate change. At least this is what I think. In any case. Here is the article about the debate.

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Bednets and drugs will influence the spread of malaria far more than will climate change, according to a study that challenges fears that warming will aggravate the disease in Africa. Many researchers have predicted that rising temperatures will cause malaria to expand its range and intensify in its current strongholds.

But unlike usual models, which aim to predict how climate change will affect malaria in the future, researchers looked at how warming affected the disease throughout the last century.

Read the complete article here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/21/climate-change-insects