Malaria trends in Ethiopian highlands track the 2000 ‘slowdown’ in global warming

Xavier Rodó; Pamela P. Martinez; Amir Siraj; Mercedes Pascual

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21815-y

Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Malaria trends in Ethiopian highlands track the 2000 ‘slowdown’ in global warming

Xavier Rodó,
Pamela P. Martinez,
Amir Siraj,
Mercedes Pascual

Affiliations

Xavier Rodó: ICREA and CLIMA (Climate and Health) Program, ISGlobal
Pamela P. Martinez: Department of Epidemiology, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
Amir Siraj: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Mercedes Pascual: Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21815-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The effect of climate change on highland malaria transmission remains unclear because of increasing and decreasing trends. Here, Rodó et al. analyze malaria case data and climate data for the Ethiopian highlands from 1968 to 2008 and find that changes in temperature and associated climate variability facilitated the effect of interventions at the beginning of the 21st century.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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