Estimating the malaria risk of African mosquito movement by air travel.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The expansion of global travel has resulted in the importation of African Anopheles mosquitoes, giving rise to cases of local malaria transmission. Here, cases of 'airport malaria' are used to quantify, using a combination of global climate and air traffic volume, where and when are the greatest risks of a Plasmodium falciparum-carrying mosquito being importated by air. This prioritises areas at risk of further airport malaria and possible importation or reemergence of the disease.

Methods

Monthly data on climate at the World's major airports were combined with air traffic information and African malaria seasonality maps to identify, month-by-month, those existing and future air routes at greatest risk of African malaria-carrying mosquito importation and temporary

SUBMITTER: Tatem AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1557515 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature