The effect of climatic conditions on malaria epidemics in Swat Valley
The vector for the transmission of malaria is a mosquito and like all diseases which are transmitted through mosquitoes are affected by climatic conditions. In the present study, such type of investigation was done to find the influence of different climatic changes such as temperature and humidity on the incidence of malarial cases in Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan from 2000 to 2016. The data relating to malarial cases and climate conditions were collected from District Health Officer (Saidu Sharif) and Meteorological Center respectively. Statistical analysis of the data was done by using MS Office software, i.e., MS Excel. It was found that with the increase in temperature and humidity, an increase in the incidence of Malaria occurred and vice versa. The effect of global warming and the increasing temperature could become an alarming factor in deciding the fate of malarial epidemics.