The El Niño Southern Oscillation and the historic malaria epidemics on the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka: An early warning system for future epidemics?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 86-96

  Bouma, Menno J ^a,c   Van Der Kaay, Hugo J ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Stony Lodge   (Ireland)

Author keywords

El Nin ; ENSO; Epidemic; India; Malaria; Punjab; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; EPIDEMIC; FUTUROLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDIA; MALARIA; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SRI LANKA; ARTICLE; FORECASTING; HISTORY; MOSQUITO; SEASON; WEATHER;

RAIN;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FORECASTING; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA; MOSQUITO CONTROL; RAIN; SEASONS; SRI LANKA; WEATHER;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MALARIA EPIDEMIC;

INDIA, PUNJAB; SRI LANKA;

EID: 0029666354     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1996.d01-7.x     Document Type: Article

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