Climate change unlikely to increase malaria burden in West Africa

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1009-1013

  Yamana, Teresa K ^a   Bomblies, Arne ^b   Eltahir, Elfatih A B ^c  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MALARIA; VILLAGE;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84992549125     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3085     Document Type: Article

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