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Climate Shifts May Threaten To Increase Spread Of Malaria, Health Experts Say
"Shifts in the world's climate and responses to those shifts, including construction of more irrigation systems, threaten to increase the spread of malaria, health experts say," AlertNet reports. "Because malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes, its distribution patterns can be altered by changes in weather conditions, including changes in temperature, humidity, rainfall and the general availability of fresh water, said Suad Sulaiman, a malaria expert and health and environment adviser with the Sudanese National Academy of Sciences," according to the news agency.
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