Wounded athletes are seen outside the Regional Hospital in Buea, Cameroon, on February 25, 2023. - Three explosions at the start of a marathon wounded 18 people on Saturday in an English-speaking region of Cameroon plagued by separatist unrest, officials said. More than 450 athletes took part in the
Buea: Three explosions at the start of a marathon wounded 18 people on Saturday in an English speaking region of Cameroon plagued by separatist unrest.
Cameroon has been highlighted as the most botanically diverse country in tropical Africa, with a higher diversity than all other west African countries combined, and a suite of orchids to match.
Malaria remains endemic in Cameroon, with heterogeneous transmission related to eco-climatic variations, vector diversity and spatial distribution. The intensification of malaria prevention and control through the free distribution of insecticide-treated nets in recent years may have altered the composition, geographic distribution and natural infection rate of Anopheles species, with implications for malaria transmission dynamics. The present study seeks to assess the vectorial diversity, dynamics and infectivity across different seasons and altitudes in relationship to parasite prevalence around the slopes of Mount Cameroon, southwestern region. Mosquitoes were sampled (indoors and outdoors) in 11 eco-epidemiological settings at low (18–197 m), intermediate (371–584 m) and high (740–1067 m) altitude by nightly human landing catches. The mosquitoes were identified morphologically and Anopheles gambiae sibling species identified by PCR. Pari