October 19, 2009
Rising temperatures mean malarial mosquitoes infecting people on Mount Kenya
From Treehugger:
Last week it was house flies at the Mount Everest base camp, now it’s mosquitoes and malaria in the highlands around Mount Kenya that are in the spotlight, in this video clip from the UN Environment Programme. It’s a short clip, but puts a human face on the sort of changes already being brought about by warmer temperatures: Interesting that mosquitoes moving up mountainsides is coming to pass. Two years ago Stephen Morse, a professor at Columbia University, speaking at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology called such an event “one of the first indicators” of rising global temperatures. …
Rising Temps Mean Malarial Mosquitos Infecting People on Mount Kenya (Video)