[HTML][HTML] Scientists' warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change

R Cavicchioli, WJ Ripple, KN Timmis, F Azam… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
In the Anthropocene, in which we now live, climate change is impacting most life on Earth.
Microorganisms support the existence of all higher trophic life forms. To understand how …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change: an enduring challenge for vector-borne disease prevention and control

J Rocklöv, R Dubrow - Nature immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Climate change is already affecting vector-borne disease transmission and spread, and its
impacts are likely to worsen. In the face of ongoing climate change, we must intensify efforts …

Thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease

EA Mordecai, JM Caldwell, MK Grossman… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mosquito‐borne diseases cause a major burden of disease worldwide. The vital rates of
these ectothermic vectors and parasites respond strongly and nonlinearly to temperature …

Impact of recent and future climate change on vector‐borne diseases

C Caminade, KM McIntyre… - Annals of the New York …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is one of the greatest threats to human health in the 21st century. Climate
directly impacts health through climatic extremes, air quality, sea‐level rise, and multifaceted …

[HTML][HTML] Climatic changes and their role in emergence and re-emergence of diseases

A El-Sayed, M Kamel - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020 - Springer
Global warming and the associated climate changes are predictable. They are enhanced by
burning of fossil fuels and the emission of huge amounts of CO 2 gas which resulted in …

The effect of global change on mosquito-borne disease

LHV Franklinos, KE Jones, DW Redding… - The Lancet infectious …, 2019 - thelancet.com
More than 80% of the global population is at risk of a vector-borne disease, with mosquito-
borne diseases being the largest contributor to human vector-borne disease burden …

Establishment and cryptic transmission of Zika virus in Brazil and the Americas

NR Faria, J Quick, IM Claro, J Theze, JG de Jesus… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Transmission of Zika virus (ZIKV) in the Americas was first confirmed in May 2015 in
northeast Brazil. Brazil has had the highest number of reported ZIKV cases worldwide (more …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models

EA Mordecai, JM Cohen, MV Evans… - PLoS neglected …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Recent epidemics of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya have heightened the need to
understand the seasonal and geographic range of transmission by Aedes aegypti and Ae …

Temperature drives Zika virus transmission: evidence from empirical and mathematical models

B Tesla, LR Demakovsky… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Temperature is a strong driver of vector-borne disease transmission. Yet, for emerging
arboviruses we lack fundamental knowledge on the relationship between transmission and …

[HTML][HTML] Vector-borne transmission and evolution of Zika virus

G Gutiérrez-Bugallo, LA Piedra, M Rodriguez… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Zika virus (ZIKV), discovered in the Zika Forest of Uganda in 1947, is a mosquito-borne
flavivirus related to yellow fever, dengue and West Nile viruses. From its discovery until …