Desert Malaria: An Emerging Malaria Paradigm and Its Global Impact on Disease Elimination

This book provides a comprehensive review of desert malaria, including its disease dynamics, distribution, surveillance, epidemiology, diagnosis, control strategies, and management. It highlights the potential risks of unstable malaria conflagration in desert environments due to anthropogenic activities and offers a model for desert transformation into malaria heaven under changed climatic conditions.

Format: Hardback
Length: 416 pages
Publication date: 18 February 2023
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This comprehensive work delves into the intricate dynamics, distribution, surveillance, epidemiology, diagnosis, control strategies, and management of desert malaria. It sheds light on the potential risks associated with unstable but often exacerbated malaria outbreaks in diverse desert environments, including dune deserts, desert oases, and desert-fringe regions. Furthermore, it uncovers the factors influenced by extensive anthropogenic activities, such as canalized irrigation projects, high-yielding agricultural practices, human concentration, and increased trade, within desert environments. The book explores the impact of irrigation on malarial dynamics and its interplay with climate forcing. Additionally, it presents a model for transforming deserts into malaria-free havens under altered climatic conditions, encompassing high rainfall, humidity, and temperature depletion. Lastly, it offers valuable insights into malaria epidemiology and disease control in arid desert environments, making it a vital resource for medical entomologists, parasitologists, epidemiologists, and public health researchers.

Weight: 822g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811976926
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023