Affiliation:
1. Trypanosomiasis and Land-use in Africa Research Group,
2. Oxford Tick Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.
Abstract
The frequent warnings that global climate change will allow
falciparum
malaria to spread into northern latitudes, including Europe and large parts of the United States, are based on biological transmission models driven principally by temperature. These models were assessed for their value in predicting present, and therefore future, malaria distribution. In an alternative statistical approach, the recorded present-day global distribution of
falciparum
malaria was used to establish the current multivariate climatic constraints. These results were applied to future climate scenarios to predict future distributions, which showed remarkably few changes, even under the most extreme scenarios.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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