Sir, – The report ("Scientists prove link between climate change and malaria", World News, March 6th) that global warming will allow malaria to "creep up the mountains and spread to new high-altitude areas" in Africa should be put in context.
The World Health Organisation's World Malaria Report 2013 shows that between 2000 and 2012, malaria deaths fell by half in Africa, where 90 per cent of such deaths occur. This translates into saving three million lives, mostly those of children. While it is of concern that the disease might one day spread to the less than 2 per cent of Africa too high for malarial mosquitoes, millions of lives could be saved now by adequate funding of malaria control in the 100 countries where it is endemic. – Yours, etc,
Dr JOHN DOHERTY
Operngasse,
Vienna,
Austria.