Trends in Parasitology
Volume 21, Issue 2, February 2005, Pages 52-53
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Climate variability and malaria epidemics in the highlands of East Africa

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Malaria epidemics in the highlands of East Africa garner significant research attention, due, in part, to their proposed sensitivity to climate change. In a recent article, Zhou et al. claim that increases in climate variance, rather than simple increases in climate mean values, have had an important role in the resurgence of malaria epidemics in the East African highlands since the early 1980s. If proven, this would be an interesting result but we believe that the methods used do not test the hypothesis suggested.

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S.I.H. is funded by a Research Career Development Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust (#069045) and is affiliated to the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)/Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, PO Box 43640, 00100 Nairobi GPO, Kenya. S.E.R. is an NERC Senior Research Fellow. R.W.S. is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow (#058992) and acknowledges the support of KEMRI. He is also affiliated to the Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of

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