Brazil 2014 Butterfly Effect: the 2014 World Cup creates the potential for a malaria outbreak in sub–Saharan Africa
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Subject Areas
- Ecology, Infectious Diseases
- Keywords
- World Cup, malaria, Brazil 2014, Anopheles
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- © 2014 Faust et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2014. Brazil 2014 Butterfly Effect: the 2014 World Cup creates the potential for a malaria outbreak in sub–Saharan Africa. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e402v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.402v1
Abstract
The 2014 World Cup Brazil will create excitement around the globe, but viewership in Africa should be especially high after South Africa 2010 and the growing popularity of football. The time difference and scheduling of matches, however, means that 86% of live matches will be shown during active Anopheles feeding times, increasing risk for malaria for millions of Africans. The aim of this commentary is to draw attention to this potential outbreak and to suggest efforts to mitigate outbreaks.