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A new study combines a new model of malaria transmission with global forecasts for temperature and rainfall to improve predictions of malaria with climate change in West Africa. 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 on mosquitoes, which breed and mature in ephemeral pools that form during and after monsoons in West Africa. [Source: MIT News]
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