Health and climate change

Global warming is not the principal determinant of malaria incidence and prevalence

P.Virot / WHO

This article criticises predictions that climate change will lead to more cases of malaria in the coming decades. It is argued that the ecology and behaviour of humans and vectors are key to the transmission and epidemiology of the disease. The author concludes that traditional and new malaria control strategies should be pursued irrespective of future climate change.

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