A new study indicates that warmer temperatures, rather than enhancing the spread of Malaria, may actually reduce its infectiousness.
A common assumption is that rising global temperatures will increase the spread of malaria — the deadly mosquito-borne disease that affects millions of people worldwide. But a study out today in Biology Letters finds that warmer temperatures seem to slow transmission of malaria-causing parasites, by reducing their infectiousness.
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Biol. Lett. (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1075) Warmer temperatures reduce the vectorial capacity of malaria mosquitoes
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