Science Cartoon on " Large Dams can spread Malaria"

Believe it or not....! According to the team of scientists, in sub-Saharan Africa, dams contribute significantly to malaria risk particularly in areas of unstable transmission.

"Dams are of lot importance to development, but it brings an adverse situation too. According to biologist Solomon Kibret of the University of New England in Australia, the lead author of the research published in Malaria journal. Paper entitled "Malaria impact of large dams in sub-Saharan Africa: maps, estimates and predictions" is about relationship large dams and malaria. Researchers clearly found that large dams have a greater impact on malaria prevalence in areas of unstable transmission.  Dams intensify the transmission of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. This finding of particular area may be applicable to the large dams around the world and required research. 

 Reference: Solomon Kibret, Jonathan Lautze, Matthew McCartney, G. Glenn Wilson, Luxon Nhamo. Malaria impact of large dams in sub-Saharan Africa: maps, estimates and predictions. Malaria Journal, 2015; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s12936-015-0873-2

April 25th is celebrated as World Malaria day. Coincidently, Cartoon I prepared today is based biting preference of mosquito and genetic of person. It is based on research published in PLOS ONE on 22nd April, 2015. One can read general article on it at www.sciencenews.org and original paper at http://journals.plos.org.

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