Climate Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases

Overview

Journal Microbes Infect

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Allergy & Immunology
Microbiology

Date 2001 Aug 8

PMID 11489423

Citations 78

Authors

P R EPSTEIN

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Abstract

The ranges of infectious diseases and vectors are changing in altitude, along with shifts in plant communities and the retreat of alpine glaciers. Additionally, extreme weather events create conditions conducive to clusters of insect-, rodent- and water-borne diseases. Accelerating climate change carries profound threats for public health and society.

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