Climate change could shift disease burden from malaria to arboviruses in Africa

EA Mordecai, SJ Ryan, JM Caldwell… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Malaria is a long-standing public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa, whereas arthropod-
borne viruses (arboviruses) such as dengue and chikungunya cause an under-recognised …

Mathematical modeling of climate change and malaria transmission dynamics: a historical review

SE Eikenberry, AB Gumel - Journal of mathematical biology, 2018 - Springer
Malaria, one of the greatest historical killers of mankind, continues to claim around half a
million lives annually, with almost all deaths occurring in children under the age of five living …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing smallholder farmers' perception of climate change with meteorological data: A case study from southwestern Nigeria

A Ayanlade, M Radeny, JF Morton - Weather and climate extremes, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper examines smallholder farmers' perceptions of climate change, climate variability
and their impacts, and adaptation strategies adopted over the past three decades. We use …

Quantifying the effects of temperature on mosquito and parasite traits that determine the transmission potential of human malaria

LLM Shapiro, SA Whitehead, MB Thomas - PLoS biology, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Malaria transmission is known to be strongly impacted by temperature. The current
understanding of how temperature affects mosquito and parasite life history traits derives …

Estimating the effects of temperature on transmission of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

E Suh, IJ Stopard, B Lambert, JL Waite… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite concern that climate change could increase the human risk to malaria in certain
areas, the temperature dependency of malaria transmission is poorly characterized. Here …

Spatial spillovers of violent conflict amplify the impacts of climate variability on malaria risk in sub-Saharan Africa

Q Yu, Y Qu, L Zhang, X Yao, J Yang, S Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Africa carries a disproportionately high share of the global malaria burden, accounting for
94% of malaria cases and deaths worldwide in 2019. It is also a politically unstable region …

Future malaria environmental suitability in Africa is sensitive to hydrology

MW Smith, T Willis, E Mroz, WHM James, MJ Klaar… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Changes in climate shift the geographic locations that are suitable for malaria transmission
because of the thermal constraints on vector Anopheles mosquitos and Plasmodium spp …

Malaria, climate variability, and interventions: modelling transmission dynamics

A Beloconi, BO Nyawanda, G Bigogo, S Khagayi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Assessment of the relative impact of climate change on malaria dynamics is a complex
problem. Climate is a well-known factor that plays a crucial role in driving malaria outbreaks …

How will mosquitoes adapt to climate warming?

LI Couper, JE Farner, JM Caldwell, ML Childs… - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The potential for adaptive evolution to enable species persistence under a changing climate
is one of the most important questions for understanding impacts of future climate change …

The effect of extreme temperature and precipitation on cause-specific deaths in rural Burkina Faso: a longitudinal study

NJ Arisco, MO Sewe, T Bärnighausen, A Sié… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Extreme weather is becoming more common due to climate change and
threatens human health through climate-sensitive diseases, with very uneven effects around …