Predicting malaria outbreaks from sea surface temperature variability up to 9 months ahead in Limpopo, South Africa, using machine learning

• Main Authors: Patrick Martineau (Author), Swadhin K. Behera (Author), Masami Nonaka (Author), Ratnam Jayanthi (Author), Takayoshi Ikeda (Author), Noboru Minakawa (Author), Philip Kruger (Author), Qavanisi E. Mabunda (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Malaria is the cause of nearly half a million deaths worldwide each year, posing a great socioeconomic burden. Despite recent progress in understanding the influence of climate on malaria infection rates, climatic sources of predictability remain poorly understood and underexploited. Local weather v...