Basic urban services fail to neutralise environmental determinants of 'rattiness', a composite metric of rat abundance

T Carvalho-Pereira, MT Eyre, CG Zeppelini… - Urban …, 2023 - Springer
Globally, low-income urban communities suffer from poor provision of services and
degraded environments, favouring opportunistic zoonotic reservoirs, such as rats. Large …

[HTML][HTML] Gender differences in the perception of leptospirosis severity, behaviours, and Leptospira exposure risk in urban Brazil: a cross-sectional study

EA Delight, DC de Carvalho Santiago, FAG Palma… - medRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Vulnerability to climate hazards and infectious diseases are not gender-
neutral, meaning that men, women, boys, girls, and other gender identities experience …

Topography and environmental deficiencies are associated with chikungunya virus exposure in urban informal settlements in Brazil

C Travis, H Argibay, M Pellizzaro, D de Oliveira… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Background Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arbovirus with a significant global public
health burden. Delineating the specific contributions of individual behaviour, household …

Drivers of Global Waterborne Disease Transmission Following Extreme Precipitation Events: A Systematic Review

C Latendresse - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Precipitation events such as hurricanes, typhoons, and heavy rainfall can have devastating
impacts on water and sanitation infrastructure around the world and have led to large-scale …