Predictive study on the risk of malaria spreading due to global warming

Conference · Tue Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:471036

Ono, Masaji ^[1]

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1. National Inst. for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)

Global warming will bring about a temperature elevation, and the habitat of vectors of infectious diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever, will spread into subtropical or temperate zone. The purpose of this study is to simulate the spreading of these diseases through reexamination of existing data and collection of some additional information by field survey. From these data, the author will establish the relationship between meteorological conditions, vector density and malaria occurrence. And then he will simulate and predict the malaria epidemics in case of temperature elevation in southeast Asia and Japan.

• OSTI ID: 471036
• Report Number(s): CONF-960420--; ISBN 0-884736-02-5
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
APPLIED STUDIES
AMBIENT TEMPERATURE
ASIA
DISEASE VECTORS
EPIDEMIOLOGY
FORECASTING
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
HEALTH HAZARDS
JAPAN
MALARIA