Amid climate change, mosquitoes migrate; will malaria follow?

A female Anopheles stephensi mosquito obtains its blood meal through its sharp labrum, which it had inserted into its human host. [AP Photo]

As the planet warms, mosquitoes are slowly migrating upward.

The temperature range where malaria-carrying mosquitoes thrive is rising in elevation. Researchers have found evidence of the phenomenon from the tropical highlands of South America to the mountainous, populous regions of eastern Africa.