Relationships between transmission of malaria in Africa and climate factors
Abstract The spread of malaria is related to climate change because temperature and rainfall are key parameters of climate change. Fluctuations in temperature affect the spread of malaria by lowering or speeding up its rate of transmission. The amount of rainfall also affects the transmission of mal...
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| description | Abstract The spread of malaria is related to climate change because temperature and rainfall are key parameters of climate change. Fluctuations in temperature affect the spread of malaria by lowering or speeding up its rate of transmission. The amount of rainfall also affects the transmission of malaria by offering a lot of sites suitable for mosquitoes to breed in. However, a high amount of rainfall does not have a great effect. Because of the high malaria incidence and the death rates in African regions, by using malaria incidence data, temperature data and rainfall data collected in 1901–2015, we construct and analyze climate networks to show how climate relates to the transmission of malaria in African countries. Malaria networks show a positive correlation with temperature and rainfall networks, except for the 1981–2015 period, in which the malaria network shows a negative correlation with rainfall. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6205c774721145ca8cfd96b107992ac02022-12-22T04:18:53ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222022-08-011211810.1038/s41598-022-18782-9Relationships between transmission of malaria in Africa and climate factorsBiseko Juma Mafwele0Jae Woo Lee1Department of Physics, Inha UniversityDepartment of Physics, Inha UniversityAbstract The spread of malaria is related to climate change because temperature and rainfall are key parameters of climate change. Fluctuations in temperature affect the spread of malaria by lowering or speeding up its rate of transmission. The amount of rainfall also affects the transmission of malaria by offering a lot of sites suitable for mosquitoes to breed in. However, a high amount of rainfall does not have a great effect. Because of the high malaria incidence and the death rates in African regions, by using malaria incidence data, temperature data and rainfall data collected in 1901–2015, we construct and analyze climate networks to show how climate relates to the transmission of malaria in African countries. Malaria networks show a positive correlation with temperature and rainfall networks, except for the 1981–2015 period, in which the malaria network shows a negative correlation with rainfall.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18782-9 |
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| title | Relationships between transmission of malaria in Africa and climate factors |
| title_full | Relationships between transmission of malaria in Africa and climate factors |
| title_fullStr | Relationships between transmission of malaria in Africa and climate factors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relationships between transmission of malaria in Africa and climate factors |
| title_short | Relationships between transmission of malaria in Africa and climate factors |
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| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18782-9 |
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