Disease emergence from global climate and land use change

JA Patz, SH Olson, CK Uejio, HK Gibbs - Medical Clinics of North America, 2008 - Elsevier
Climate change and land use change can affect multiple infectious diseases of humans,
acting either independently or synergistically. Expanded efforts in empiric and future …

A review of malaria transmission dynamics in forest ecosystems

NP Kar, A Kumar, OP Singh, JM Carlton, N Nanda - Parasites & vectors, 2014 - Springer
Malaria continues to be a major health problem in more than 100 endemic countries located
primarily in tropical and sub-tropical regions around the world. Malaria transmission is a …

Indoor and outdoor malaria vector surveillance in western Kenya: implications for better understanding of residual transmission

T Degefa, D Yewhalaw, G Zhou, M Lee, H Atieli… - Malaria journal, 2017 - Springer
Background The widespread use of indoor-based malaria vector control interventions has
been shown to alter the behaviour of vectors in Africa. There is an increasing concern that …

Malaria risk and temperature: influences from global climate change and local land use practices

JA Patz, SH Olson - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
An estimated 700,000 to 2.7 million people die of malaria each year, and 75% of those are
African children (www. cdc. govmalaria). Recent resurgence in the East African highlands …

Diversity and utilization of antimalarial ethnophytotherapeutic remedies among the Kikuyus (Central Kenya)

GN Njoroge, RW Bussmann - Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2006 - Springer
Plants in Kenya are becoming increasingly important as sources of traditional medicines.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that malaria kills about 2.7 million …

Climate change and highland malaria: fresh air for a hot debate

LF Chaves, CJM Koenraadt - The Quarterly review of biology, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
In recent decades, malaria has become established in zones at the margin of its previous
distribution, especially in the highlands of East Africa. Studies in this region have sparked a …

Spatial clustering of malaria and associated risk factors during an epidemic in a highland area of western Kenya

S Brooker, S Clarke, JK Njagi, S Polack… - Tropical medicine & …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The epidemiology of malaria over small areas remains poorly understood, and this is
particularly true for malaria during epidemics in highland areas of Africa, where transmission …

Changing patterns of malaria epidemiology between 2002 and 2010 in Western Kenya: the fall and rise of malaria

G Zhou, YA Afrane, AM Vardo-Zalik, H Atieli, D Zhong… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background The impact of insecticide treated nets (ITNs) on reducing malaria incidence is
shown mainly through data collection from health facilities. Routine evaluation of long-term …

Synergies between environmental degradation and climate variation on malaria re-emergence in southern Venezuela: a spatiotemporal modelling study

IK Fletcher, ME Grillet, JE Moreno… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Environmental degradation facilitates the emergence of vector-borne diseases,
such as malaria, through changes in the ecological landscape that increase human–vector …

Climate change and health: global to local influences on disease risk

JA Patz, SH Olson - Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The World Health Organization has concluded that the climatic changes that have
occurred since the mid 1970s could already be causing annually over 150,000 deaths and …