Health

Volume 5, Issue 4 (April 2013)

ISSN Print: 1949-4998   ISSN Online: 1949-5005

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Local climate changes and the spread of malaria in Rwanda

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ABSTRACT

A population’s health makes it possible to draw conclusions about a country’s general development level. In connection with local climatic changes, for example, we can assess how well a society adjusts to the new conditions. To that effect, it has been observed during the last few years that global climate change can also affect human health in various ways. We can differentiate direct health impacts (e.g. extreme weather events, natural catastrophes caused by the weather) from indirect ones. However, the indirect consequences cause by far the greater damages to health. They are being spread increasingly by vectors (mosquitoes, ticks, etc.). Especially when a vector-carried infectious disease (e.g. malaria) migrates into areas where it is not endemic, considerable societal problems can result. The people living there would be immunologically unprepared.

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Henninger, S. (2013) Local climate changes and the spread of malaria in Rwanda. Health, 5, 728-734. doi: 10.4236/health.2013.54096.

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