@article {946, title = {Malaria and Mosquitoes in Britain: the effect of global climate change}, journal = {European Mosquito Bulletin}, volume = {4}, year = {1999}, month = {06/1999}, pages = {17-25}, abstract = {

Globally, malaria is without question the most important of the insect-bome diseases. At the present time over 2000 million people in over a hundred tropical and subtropical countries of the world live under the threat of the disease. Assessments of the number of people infected vary, but the figure is probably in\ excess of 400 million. It is estimated that malaria causes, or contributes to, the deaths of between one and\ three million people each year, mostly children under five years of age (World Health Org;mi7.ation, 1996).\ The situation in Europe is that, with the exception of the Ural region of Russia and Ukraine (Nikolaeva,\ 1996), endemically transmitted malaria has been elimin\"ted. In 1995 there were 50 cases of endemically\ transmitted malaria in Bulgaria (Nikolaeva, 1996), indicating that constant vigilance is necessary. Only
female Anopheles mosquitoes, of which there are currently eighteen species recognised in Europe but only\ five in Britain, can transmit malaria.


The question that entomologists and health woIkers are asking at present is \"with global climatic change;\ will malaria return to these shores as an endemically transmitted disease?\" In order to begin to answer\ this question it is necessary to examine the magnitude of the predicted climatic warming in Britain, the\ environmental requirements of the malarial parasite and the ways in which mosquito populations might\ be affected.

}, author = {Snow, Keith} }