Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases

A Pfenning-Butterworth, LB Buckley… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2024 - thelancet.com
The concurrent pressures of rising global temperatures, rates and incidence of species
decline, and emergence of infectious diseases represent an unprecedented planetary crisis …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change and communicable diseases in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries

T Rawson, P Doohan, K Hauck, KA Murray… - Epidemics, 2023 - Elsevier
A review of the extant literature reveals the extent to which the spread of communicable
diseases will be significantly impacted by climate change. Specific research into how this …

Mapping current and future thermal limits to suitability for malaria transmission by the invasive mosquito Anopheles stephensi

SJ Ryan, CA Lippi, OC Villena, A Singh, CC Murdock… - Malaria Journal, 2023 - Springer
Background Anopheles stephensi is a malaria-transmitting mosquito that has recently
expanded from its primary range in Asia and the Middle East, to locations in Africa. This …

Solar geoengineering could redistribute malaria risk in developing countries

CJ Carlson, R Colwell, MS Hossain… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Solar geoengineering is often framed as a stopgap measure to decrease the magnitude,
impacts, and injustice of climate change. However, the benefits or costs of geoengineering …

Mosquito thermal tolerance is remarkably constrained across a large climatic range

LI Couper, JE Farner, KP Lyberger… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How mosquitoes may respond to rapid climate warming remains unknown for most species,
but will have major consequences for their future distributions, with cascading impacts on …

Malaria transmission in Nepal under climate change: anticipated shifts in extent and season, and comparison with risk definitions for intervention

S Bhattarai, JK Blackburn, SJ Ryan - Malaria Journal, 2022 - Springer
Background Climate and climate change affect the spatial pattern and seasonality of malaria
risk. Season lengths and spatial extents of mapped current and future malaria transmission …

The historical fingerprint and future impact of climate change on childhood malaria in Africa

CJ Carlson, TA Carleton, RC Odoulami, CH Trisos - medRxiv, 2023 - medrxiv.org
The health burden of anthropogenic climate change is growing exponentially, but present-
day impacts remain difficult to measure–. Here, we leverage a recently-published …

Mitigating the effects of climate change on human health with vaccines and vaccinations

CL Kim, S Agampodi, F Marks, JH Kim… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Climate change represents an unprecedented threat to humanity and will be the ultimate
challenge of the 21st century. As a public health consequence, the World Health …

[HTML][HTML] Citizen Science as an Approach for Responding to the Threat of Anopheles stephensi in Africa

RM Carney, A Long, RD Low, S Zohdy… - … science: theory and …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Even as novel technologies emerge and medicines advance, pathogen-transmitting
mosquitoes pose a deadly and accelerating public health threat. Detecting and mitigating …

Scaling artificial light at night and disease vector interactions into socio-ecological systems: a conceptual appraisal

BWT Coetzee, AM Burke… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
There is burgeoning interest in how artificial light at night (ALAN) interacts with disease
vectors, particularly mosquitoes. ALAN can alter mosquito behaviour and biting propensity …