Malaria and Mosquitoes in Britain: the effect of global climate change
Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1999 |
Authors: | K. Snow |
Journal: | European Mosquito Bulletin |
Volume: | 4 |
Pagination: | 17-25 |
Date Published: | 06/1999 |
Abstract: | <p>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<br /> |