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Postgrad Med J 2004;80:663-666 doi:10.1136/pgmj.2004.021857
  • History of medicine

Malaria in the UK: past, present, and future

  1. T Chin,
  2. P D Welsby
  1. Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr Philip D Welsby
 Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK; P.Welsbyed.ac.uk
  • Received 10 March 2004
  • Accepted 30 March 2004

Abstract

There is strong evidence that malaria was once indigenous to the UK, that global warming is occurring, and that human activity is contributing to global warming. Global warming will have a variety of effects, one of which will probably be the return of indigenous malaria.

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