The El Nino Southern Oscillation and the historic malaria epidemics on the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka: An early warning system for future epidemics?
The El Nino Southern Oscillation and the historic malaria epidemics on the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka: An early warning system for future epidemics?
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DOI:
10.1046/j.1365-3156.1996.d01-7.x
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发表时间:
1996-02-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
vanderKaay, HJ
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作者:
Bouma, MJ;vanderKaay, HJ
The recurrent great malaria epidemics which occurred in the Punjab province of former British India and Celyon before the introduction of residual insecticides have been related to excessive and failing monsoon rains respectively. In the arid Punjab, rainfall facilitated breeding and increased the lifespan of the mosquito vector and, in the wet part of Ceylon, failing monsoon rains caused rivers to poor, creating more favourable breeding conditions. The periodic fluctuations in monsoon rainfall and epidemic malaria are here explained in relation to the EL Nino Southern Oscillation. In the Punjab, epidemic malaria between 1868 and 1943 correlates significantly (r=0.34, P