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Nature 437, E4-E5 (8 September 2005) | doi: 10.1038/nature04180

Malaria risk: Estimating clinical episodes of malaria (reply)

Robert W. Snow1,2, Carlos A. Guerra3, Abdisalan M. Noor2, Hly Y. Myint4 and Simon I. Hay1,3

We have provided an evidence-based framework for estimating the public-health burden of P. falciparum malaria1 by using a uniform series of structured, transparent and reproducible data and methods to define the cartography of this parasite's clinical impact at a global scale. This contribution to global disease modelling is questioned by Nahlen et al.2 for United Nations agencies responsible for measuring development targets (see also ref. 3), and our estimation of the malaria burden outside Africa is challenged by Bell et al.4.

  1. Malaria Public Health & Epidemiology Group, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories, PO Box 43640, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
  2. Centre for Tropical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DS, UK
  3. TALA Research Group, Tinbergen Building, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
  4. Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

Correspondence to: Robert W. Snow1,2 Email: rsnow@wtnairobi.mimcom.net

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