Malaria, one of the major infectious diseases in Pakistan, affects thousands of people every year. Its pathogens are highly dependent on the environmental conditions and have their own climatic niche. Mosquitos are poikilotherms which can survive only in a particular range of temperature. Also, the extrinsic incubation period for malaria parasites is temperature influenced. This paper aims to find the areas that allow easy transmission of parasites into human population under current climatic conditions, which shows that Plasmodium vivax has a greater area coverage than Plasmodium falciparum.
Khalid Mazhar, Mudassar Hassan Arsalan, Syed Jamil Hassan Kazmi, Imran Ahmed Khan. (2019) IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL RISK AREAS OF MALARIA PARASITES IN PAKISTAN USING CLIMATE DATA AND GIS, , Volume 16, Issue1.
