{"id":10904,"date":"2020-09-04T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T05:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10904"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:14","slug":"malaria-new-map-shows-which-areas-will-be-at-risk-because-of-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/09\/04\/malaria-new-map-shows-which-areas-will-be-at-risk-because-of-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaria: New Map Shows Which Areas Will Be at Risk Because of Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of an estimated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/feature-stories\/detail\/world-malaria-report-2019\">228 million cases<\/a>&nbsp;of malaria worldwide each year, around 93% are in Africa. This proportion is more or less the same for the 405,000 malaria deaths globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s why there are huge efforts underway to provide detailed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/malariaatlas.org\/\">maps of current malaria cases<\/a>&nbsp;in Africa, and to predict which areas will become more susceptible in future, since such maps are vital to control and treat transmission. Mosquito populations can respond quickly to climate change, so it is also important to understand what global warming means for malaria risk across the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have just published a new set of maps in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-020-18239-5\">Nature Communications<\/a>&nbsp;giving the most accurate picture yet of where in Africa will \u2013 and won\u2019t \u2013 become climatically suitable for malaria transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The malaria parasite thrives where it is warm and wet. Air temperature controls several parts of the transmission cycle, including the mosquito lifespan and rates of development and biting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it is too warm or too cold then either the malaria parasite or the mosquito that transmits the parasite between humans will not survive.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/malaria-new-map-shows-which-areas-will-be-at-risk-because-of-global-warming-144783\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of an estimated&nbsp;228 million cases&nbsp;of malaria worldwide each year, around 93% are in Africa. This proportion is more or less the same for the 405,000 malaria deaths globally. That\u2019s why&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}