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Malaria-carrying mosquitoes are moving to new habitats as the earth warms up due to climate change. Spotlight asked several local experts what this might mean for malaria in South Africa and efforts to eliminate the parasitic disease. Malaria-carrying mosquitoes are moving to new habitats as th.
Southern Africa wants to eliminate the disease by 2030, but predicting where and when the disease will strike remains a challenge. Southern Africa wants to eliminate the disease by 2030, but predicting where and when the disease will strike remains a challenge.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, tens of millions of Africans are already feeling the negative health impacts of climate change, in the form of heat stress, extreme weather and increased transmission of infectious disease.