Electronic monitoring and mapping enables malaria management

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 10:36 in Earth & Climate

A Geographic Information System (GIS)-driven digital map of past and predicted malaria outbreak hotspots has been used in India as part of a national control program. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access International Journal of Health Geographics describe the creation of the GIS and its implementation in the malaria-stricken Madhya Pradesh region...

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