Abstract
India has among the highest rates of malaria mortality, inoculation and infection, human and socio-economicadministrative costs. India is a subcontinent having monsoon climate (most variable). Meteorology being all about atmospheric processes and dynamics envelopes much of the ecology and environment. This communication presents Indian sub-continental atypical monsoon meteorology, east coast’s geography, geomorphology of eosin plateaus (plateau environment in particular), orography (delta type sea with parabolic shore line) as having a nexus with the ever present human health hazard of malaria infection. There is not much scope for inter-disciplinary studies. Ongoing decadal works have been cited to indicate the historical etiology of the term ‘Medical Meteorology’ in clinical-cum- met domains. The finding is that due to such all-pervading meteorology the nature of the nexus is planetary in scale and all enveloping. Malaria is part of ecology. It is aided and abetted by Mother Nature. Malaria is here to stay.
Highlights
We discuss for the first time the effect of coastal meteorology and associated geomorphology cum orography of the eastern shore board of India on vector bionomics and ceaseless survival
Malaria is endemic all over the tropo-equatorial domains limited to 2000 meters from the mean sea level (MSL)
The geography and the census of the Koraput district, is a plateau of the order 750-1000 mts above the MSL, with a geographical area of 100,000 Km2 and a census of 1million; 65-70% of which are non-migrating, native tribal of ethnic stock
Summary
Hoskins used the term “Medical Meteorology” in the British Medical Journal (not produced), which apparently was in vogue across the channel, is indicated in the British Journal of History of Sciences [1] Unaware of such pre-use we in 2006 had used this term as our caption in our nascent communication to the Vayu Mandal [2] to discuss the effect of severe cyclonic storms on pregnancy and primegravedei, in particular. The considered view is that obstinate manifestation of malaria requires a gamut of factors with meteorology as the common binder. The altruistic Indian Govt.’s sub-continent wide centurion efforts have far not taken on board excerpts from the Earth Sciences domain.
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