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Early Warning System Provides Four-month Forecast of Malaria Epidemics in Northwest India
March 3, 2013
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Sea surface temperatures in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean can be used to accurately forecast, by up to four months, malaria epidemics thousands of miles away in northwestern India, a University of Michigan theoretical ecologist and her colleagues have found.
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