Mail & Guardian: Malaria cases increase as temperatures rise

Release Date: May 24, 2010 This content is archived.

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An article in the Mail & Guardian, an African online newspaper, on global warming and the growing number of cases of malaria in Africa reports that researchers at the Kenya Medical Research Institute and UB found that a 1-degree Celsius increase in the minimum and maximum monthly temperature would lead to an 8-95 percent increase in the number of malaria outpatients.

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