Relación entre el clima y la transmision de la malaria en la Costa Atlántica: Un trabajo de investigación Formativa

Abstract

In Colombian there has been founded a keen relation between the weather variations which affect the hydric balance and the outcome of tropical diseases transmited by insects such as the Anopheles, malaria vector. The global warming had brougth weather changes such as the «Niño» that had affected the vector dinamics fact which could be related with the increased number of cases of tropical infections diseases in Colombian during the last decade. The high precipitations produce long hot climate periods in which the insect eggs are in their incubation stage, increasing its survivor rate. There after when the rain comes it produce adecuate breeding places for the aggs eclosion and the insect development. This essay is a retrospective descriptive study of the malaria behavior in the Colombian Caribe Region during 1999 to 2002. Also has been reported a correlation between the malaria transmission and the weather changes during this period. This information may contibuting to establish