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New World Malaria Map
More than a third of mankind is at risk of malaria. We’ve been told this for years but now it’s been proved: an international team has just published a map which shows, region by region, the risk of contracting the disease.
As part of the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP), Professor Robert Snow and his colleagues have gathered together data on 87 countries. They have also studied the climatic parameters, in particular the temperature and humidity levels required for the presence of the anopheles mosquito, the vector of plasmodium falciparum.
Malaria affects more than two billion people across the world. In total, the disease claims more than 2 million lives every year. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, it causes the deaths of more than 3,000 children every day.
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