Data from: Altitudinal changes in malaria incidence in highlands of Ethiopia and Colombia

The impact of global warming on insect-borne diseases and on highland
malaria in particular remains controversial. Temperature is known to
influence transmission intensity through its effects on the population
growth of the mosquito vector and on pathogen development within the
vector. Spatiotemporal data at a regional scale in highlands of Colombia
and Ethiopia supplied an opportunity to examine how the spatial
distribution of the disease changes with the interannual variability of
temperature. We provide evidence for an increase in the altitude of
malaria distribution in warmer years, which implies that climate change
will, without mitigation, result in an increase of the malaria burden in
the densely populated highlands of Africa and South America.