This book comprehensively reviews the disease dynamics, distribution,
surveillance, epidemiology, diagnosis, control strategies, and
management of the desert malaria. It highlights the potential risks of
unstable but often exacerbated malaria conflagration as epidemics in the
middle of duned desert, a desert oasis, and desert-fringe regions.
Further, it reveals the factors inveigled into desert environments due
to extensive anthropogenic activities such as canalized irrigation
projects, high-yielding new agriculture practices, human concentration,
and increased trade. It addresses the impact of irrigation on the
malarial dynamics and its coupling to the climate forcing. The book also
offers a model for desert transformation into malaria heaven under the
changed climatic conditions including high rainfall, humidity, and
depletion in temperature. Lastly, it offers insight into malaria
epidemiology and disease control in the desert's arid environments. This
book is an essential resource for medical entomologists,
parasitologists, epidemiologists, and public health researchers.
