The projected global increase in the distribution and prevalence of infectious diseases with climate change suggests a pending societal crisis. The subject is increasingly attracting the …
JA Patz, SH Olson - Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The World Health Organization has concluded that the climatic changes that have occurred since the mid 1970s could already be causing annually over 150,000 deaths and …
DJ Gubler, P Reiter, KL Ebi, W Yap… - Environmental health …, 2001 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Diseases such as plague, typhus, malaria, yellow fever, and dengue fever, transmitted between humans by blood-feeding arthropods, were once common in the United States …
F Fouque, JC Reeder - Infectious diseases of poverty, 2019 - mednexus.org
Background: The climate variables that directly influence vector-borne diseases' ecosystems are mainly temperature and rainfall. This is not only because the vectors bionomics are …
Global change includes climate change and climate variability, land use, water storage and irrigation, human population growth and urbanization, trade and travel, and chemical …
There has been much debate as to whether or not climate change will have, or has had, any significant effect on risk from vector-borne diseases. The debate on the former has focused …
JA Patz, PR Epstein, TA Burke, JM Balbus - Jama, 1996 - jamanetwork.com
Climatic factors influence the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases, in addition to multiple human, biological, and ecological determinants. Climatologists have …
Many infectious diseases of humans, including ma laria, dengue, cholera, and schistosomiasis, are restricted to, or more prevalent in, tropical and subtropical zones. Within …
Climate Change and Vectorborne Diseases Warming temperatures and changes in precipitation associated with climate change are affecting the occurrence of vectorborne …