{"id":4544,"date":"2019-08-14T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","slug":"ugandas-malaria-surge-linked-to-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/14\/ugandas-malaria-surge-linked-to-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda&#8217;s Malaria Surge &#8216;Linked To Climate Change&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By BBC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than one million people have\nbeen infected with malaria in Uganda in the last two months, officials have\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The health ministry has\nattributed the rapid rise partly to climate change, with the disease now\nappearing in regions that were previously malaria-free thanks to a mild\nclimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This time of year is normally a\npeak malaria season, but prolonged June rains seem to have created an even more\nfertile breeding environment for the mosquitoes that transmit the infectious\ndisease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There has been a 40 per cent\nincrease in cases reported in the same period last year, according to a\nstatement by the ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government said there had\nalso been a reduction in use of mosquito bed-nets, as those distributed in 2017\nhad begun to age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an effort to stem rising\ncases, the Ugandan government distributed 38 million mosquito bed-nets to\nhouseholds across the country between February 2017 and March 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/scienceandhealth\/Uganda-malaria-surge-linked-to-climate-change\/3073694-5234170-15esxga\/index.html\">original\nArticle<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/\">The East African<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC More than one million people have been infected with malaria in Uganda in the last two months, officials have said. The health ministry has attributed the rapid rise&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4442,"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-4544","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\/4544","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=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}