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In Africa, the changes in disease vector distribution due to rising temperatures and erratic weather patterns pose far-reaching impacts of climate change. [iStockphoto]

Gone are days when malaria would be ruled out despite symptoms simply because you did not "recently" travel to the Lake Victoria Basin or surrounding warm and humid areas that harbour Anopheles mosquitoes.

The changing climate has made highlands warmer and more humid, and effectively habitable for these mosquitoes.

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