Malaria's main source of transmission is from mosquitoes,
and one of the trends we're seeing from Global Warming and the ensuing Climate Change is
that as snowpacks melt and the average temperature of higher elevation areas rise, the
habitat there becomes more favorable for insects. So one of the things computer models
and scientists have predicted is larger insect populations, and more migrations of
insect species beyond their original habitats.
As Africa
has a very serious malaria problem, it is conceivable that malaria-carrying mosquitoes
transported by ship or plane may be able to multiply and spread north from the
Mediterranean into Turkey and from Italy into Slovenia or France, and with the larger
numbers, be able to start epidemics or higher infection rates in some European
populations as well.
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