Fighting malaria

(Photograph) - Experts at Liverpool's School of Tropical Medicine are liaising with emergency services in Mozambique to predict outbreaks of disease following the floods. Using satellite weather images, the team is providing African health authorities with maps of the areas most likely to suffer from a malaria epidemic. Guy Barnish, a lecturer in epidemiology and parasitology, has flown to Mozambique to develop efficient methods of diagnosing malaria. Photograph by AP.