Climate change is bringing malaria to new areas. In Africa, it never left

Malaria patient Funmilayo Kotun, 66, is photographed in her one room in Makoko neighborhood of Lagos, Nigeria, April 20, 2024. Funmilayo Kotun, a 66-year-old malaria patient, is photographed in her one room in the Makoko neighborhood of Lagos, Nigeria, April 20, 2024.

When a small number of cases of locally transmitted malaria were found in the United States last year, it was a reminder that climate change is reviving or migrating the threat of some diseases. But across the African continent malaria has never left, killing or sickening millions of people.