But did CO2 cause this: Malaria rates plummet among Kenyan children

[NAIROBI] A dramatic drop in the rates of severe childhood malaria in some regions of Kenya is posing new medical challenges as people in high-risk regions lose their immunity and transmission patterns alter, according to researchers.

An analysis of data collected over 18 years from malaria-infected children at Kilifi District Hospital, on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, found that paediatric admissions for malaria had fallen by 75 per cent over a period of just five years.

The data echo results from many other malaria-prone regions of Kenya, and the entire coastline of the east of the country, according to co-author Norbert Peshu, director of the Centre for Geographic Medicine Research - Coast at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI).

Jan '07, Paul Reiter: Dangers of disinformation - International Herald Tribune

We have done the studies and challenged the alarmists, but they continue to ignore the facts.

In November, I was in Nairobi along with thousands of people attending the UN's climate change conference.

I wondered how many had taken anti-malaria tablets because they had seen Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth," which claims that Nairobi was established in a healthy place "above the mosquito line" but is now infested with mosquitoes — naturally, because of global warming.

Gore's claim is deceitful on four counts. Nairobi was dangerously infested when it was founded; it was founded for a railway, not for health reasons; it is now fairly clear of malaria; and it has not become warmer.