Climate change and the resurgence of malaria in the East African highlands.

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Published in Nature on February 21, 2002

Authors

Simon I Hay1, Jonathan Cox, David J Rogers, Sarah E Randolph, David I Stern, G Dennis Shanks, Monica F Myers, Robert W Snow

Author Affiliations

1: TALA Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK. simon.hay@zoo.ox.ac.uk

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