Researchers combined climate information with health, socioeconomic and malaria control records to assess how the disease may evolve under future warming scenarios. The findings suggest that climate change could result in 123 million additional malaria cases between 2024 and 2050, along with more than 530,000 extra deaths, if malaria control efforts remain at today’s levels. Instead, climate change will mainly worsen malaria risk in high-burden regions. The study warns that climate change could undermine these gains and make global eradication targets far harder to reach by mid-century. The study concludes that climate change is no longer a distant future threat.
