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Tanzania: Climate change could mean low crop yield, more malaria cases
2014-07-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily News: EXPERTS say Tanzania is currently suffering high economic costs due to extreme events due to climate change. The costs include low crop yields due to drought and floods, as well as increased cases of malaria and other diseases. Tanzania's economy is dependent on the climate, since a large proportion of the gross domestic product (GDP) is associated with climate sensitive activities, particularly agriculture. Therefore climate variability, such as extreme events like droughts and floods, has led...
Cameroon steps up war malaria amid worsening floods
2014-05-01 09:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Cameroon is seeking ways to mobilise its citizens to support a government-led campaign against soaring malaria deaths, as worsening floods aggravate health risks. Government officials in the central-west African country say regular flooding due to erratic rains is partly responsible for the recent spike in deaths from vector-borne diseases, because standing water encourages malaria-carrying mosquitoes to breed. "The increase in the death rate from malaria in Cameroon is disturbing indeed, especially...
Better Climate Data Could Help Tanzania Curb Malaria
2014-04-23 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
allAfrica: Tanzania is enlisting climate data in a new approach to curbing malaria. Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS), a system established by the Tanzania Meteorological Agency in conjunction with the US-based International Research Institute for Climate and Society, is designed to identify long-term drivers of the disease by compiling historical climate data and making it available for analysis by health policy-makers. Malaria is a major public health concern in Tanzania. More than 10 million...
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Warmer years linked to more malaria in tropical highlands
2014-03-14 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: People in densely populated highlands of Africa and South America who have so far been protected from malaria by cooler temperatures may be seeing more of the disease as the climate changes, according to a study in Science (6 March). Mountainous regions with relatively cold climates that are unsuitable for the malaria parasite and the mosquitoes that transmit but there have been indications, for example from modelling studies, that with climate change this protection will wear off. Now scientists...
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Folding paper microscope could reduce deaths from malaria
2014-03-12 16:25:43| Biotech - Topix.net
According to the World Health Organization, there were approximately 207 million cases of malaria worldwide in 2012, 627,000 of which proved fatal.
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