Global warming blamed for rise in malaria on Mount Kenya - 0 views
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Patrick Thornton on 31 Dec 09"Global warming has caused a seven-fold increase in cases of malaria on the slopes of Mount Kenya, a British-funded research team has found. A 2C increase in average temperatures around the mountain in the past 20 years has allowed the disease to creep into higher altitude areas, where the local population of four million has little or no immunity."