As climate shifts, malaria gains ground in southern Africa (opens in new tab)  🎯Escape Analysis  Content type: News

Her teenage grandson fell critically ill last year from malaria, the disease that kills more than a quarter of a million people annually and is surging in southern Africa as the climate shifts. Before this spraying, the family's "only defence" against malaria-carrying mosquitoes was a rattling fan, said Mhlongo, a 63-year-old retiree. Her village of Calcutta is in Mpumalanga, one of three provinces in South Africa's malaria belt experiencing changing rain patterns and rising temperatures that...