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CLIMATE CHANGE AND MALARIA:
Enhanced: Temperatures Without Fevers?
Chris Dye and Paul Reiter
As the world gets warmer, the predictions about the spread of vector-based diseases such as malaria get gloomier. However, in their timely Perspective, Dye and Reiter explain the implications of a new climate model (Randolph and Rogers), which predicts that the distribution of malaria is unlikely to change dramatically in the next 50 years even if the world does get hotter.
C. Dye is in the Department of Communicable Diseases Control, Prevention and Eradication, World Health Organization (WHO), 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. E-mail: dyec{at}who.ch P. Reiter is in the Entomology Section, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dengue Branch, San Juan, 00920, PR. E-mail: ipr1{at}cdc.gov