Addressing mosquito-borne disease trends as climate change bites
Researchers say warming and shifting rainfall are expanding malaria and dengue risks, with global malaria incidence up 8.5% over the past decade.
- On Monday, Monash University researchers released a study examining how climate change and shifting rainfall patterns influence global malaria and dengue transmission, identifying risks to previously unaffected regions.
- As climate change increases temperatures and alters rainfall patterns, this expands areas where Anopheles and Aedes mosquito populations thrive, pushing both diseases into regions where they were previously rare.
- Global infection rates remain significant, with close to 300 million malaria cases and almost 400 million dengue infections annually, while transmission expands to higher altitudes and temperate regions.
- Prof Anders reported that Wolbachia bacteria has suppressed dengue outbreaks in Cairns, Townsville, and Queensland centers to almost zero, stating, "We absolutely would still be having outbreaks without Wolbachia."
- Lead researcher Dr. Toby Cumming of the Monash School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine emphasized the need for coordinated interventions addressing climate and non-climate factors driving disease transmission.
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Monash study urges coordinated action to fight mosquito-borne diseases
Prevention measures, including vector control, vaccine deployment and cutting greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming are critical to counter the growing burden of mosquito-borne diseases in a changing climate, according to a new paper by Monash University researchers.
A research review by researchers from the Australian University of Monash showed that climate change can affect conditions conducive to the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, in particular malaria and dengue fever, through changes in temperature and rainfall patterns, which may affect the survival, reproduction and transmission of mosquitoes.
Addressing mosquito-borne disease trends as climate change bites
Prevention measures, including vector control, vaccine deployment and cutting greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming, are critical to counter the growing burden of mosquito-borne diseases in a changing climate, according to a new paper by Monash University researchers.
Environmental News Network - Itching for a Solution: Addressing Mosquito-Borne Disease as Climate Change Bites
Prevention measures, including vector control, vaccine deployment and cutting greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming are critical to counter the growing burden of mosquito-borne diseases in a changing climate, according to a new paper by Monash University researchers.
Itching for a Solution: Addressing Mosquito-Borne Disease as Climate Change Bites
Prevention measures, including vector control, vaccine deployment and cutting greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming are critical to counter the growing burden of mosquito-borne diseases in a changing climate, according to a new paper by Monash University researchers.
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