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Study shows projected climate change in West Africa not likely to worsen malaria situation
2013-09-16 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: As public-health officials continue to fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers are trying to predict how climate change will impact the disease, which infected an estimated 219 million people in 2010 and is the fifth leading cause of death worldwide among children under age 5. But projections of future malaria infection have been hampered by wide variation in rainfall predictions for the region and lack of a malaria-transmission model that adequately describes the effects of local rainfall...
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