WASHINGTON, D.C.: Malaria is on the march to higher elevations as temperatures warm due to climate change, a trend that could increase the number of people sickened by the disease, researchers said on Thursday (Friday in Manila).

The study in the United States (US) journal Science was based on records from highland regions of Ethiopia and Colombia, raising concern about a potential spike in cases of the mosquito-born disease, which killed some 627,000 people in 2012.

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