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Warmer temperatures push malaria to higher elevations
Description: Researchers have debated for more than two decades the likely impacts, if any, of global warming on the worldwide incidence of malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that infects more than 300 million people each year. Now ecologists are reporting the first hard evidence that malaria does -- as had long been predicted -- creep to higher elevations during warmer years and back down to lower altitudes when temperatures cool. [Source: e! Science News]
URL: http://esciencenews.com/articles/2014/03/07/warmer.temperatures.push.malaria.higher.elevations?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eScienceNews%2Fpopular+%28e!+Science+News+-+Popular%29
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Source: e! Science News
Publish Date: 3/7/2014
Reading Level: Basic
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