Raised temperatures over the Kericho tea estates: revisiting the climate in the East African highlands malaria debate.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Whether or not observed increases in malaria incidence in the Kenyan Highlands during the last thirty years are associated with co-varying changes in local temperature, possibly connected to global changes in climate, has been debated for over a decade. Studies, using differing data sets and methodologies, produced conflicting results regarding the occurrence of temperature trends and their likelihood of being responsible, at least in part, for the increases in malaria incidence in the highlands of western Kenya. A time series of quality controlled daily temperature and rainfall data from Kericho, in the Kenyan Highlands, may help resolve the controversy. If significant temperature trends over the last three decades have occurred then climate should be included (along wi

SUBMITTER: Omumbo JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3031277 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature