SciDev.Net: Climate change is likely to spread malaria to new areas in the Indian Himalayas, and lengthen the periods in which the infection is spread in a number of districts, according to projections from malaria researchers in India.
But the country's east coast could see fewer malaria cases by 2030, because of rising temperatures which affect mosquitoes' activity, they said.
The projections by the National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR), Delhi, published in a special issue of Current Science......
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Climate change ‘to increase malaria’ in Indian Himalayas
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 11th, 2011
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