Climate change is driving a ‘shift’ in childhood malaria risk across Africa
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We did kind of deep dive on malaria research in nursing school - iirc the conditions for both that species of mosquito and the virus itself are a pretty narrow window of overlap for them to each thrive.
We had a hypothesis taking that and climate change into account, that as the globe heats up we’re going to see rates take a dip closer to the equator, but the effected region will expand north, and really pick up once it starts to hit Europe.
The next few decades are going to be wild from a disease standpoint.
Watch a cure appear rapidly once it effects Europe…