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Taxonomy Archive: vector-borne disease
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Increases the Number and Geographic Range of Disease-Carrying Insects and Ticks
Climate change poses many risks to human health. Some health impacts of climate change are already being felt in the United States. We need to safeguard our communities by protecting people’s health, wellbeing, and quality of life from climate change impacts. Many communities are already taking steps to address these public health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change Makes Me Sick!: Insect-Borne Disease
Mosquitoes carry infectious pathogens, such as the West Nile virus, Dengue fever, Zika virus, and malaria, and transmit them to humans via biting. As the Earth warms due to climate change, more regions can potentially support disease-bearing mosquitoes.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Is climate change driving the spread of Zika virus?
The Zika virus, transmitted by the same mosquito as dengue fever, has spread with alarming speed throughout South and Central America – and scientists in Brazil suspect that global warming is exacerbating the problem.
20 Apr 2018 |
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How Eating Meat and Climate Change Have Contributed to Viruses Like Zika
Zika, a mosquito-borne virus currently spreading across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific, has been declared an international public health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). The virus is suspected to cause a birth defect known as microcephaly, in which babies are born with small heads, a condition which can ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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CDC Grand Rounds: Climate Change and Health – From Science to Practice
Changes occurring in the world’s climate pose significant threats to human health and wellbeing and will have even greater impacts in the future. These threats are wide-ranging, including decreased air quality and increases in extreme weather events, wildfire, and illnesses transmitted by water, and disease-carriers, such as ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change driving bacteria growth in lakes
Every summer, a handful of Oregon’s most popular crystal blue lakes are shut down by public health authorities because of harmful algae blooms. Sometimes called blue-green algae, the blooms are caused by a toxin-producing bacteria, often forming a green paint-like scum on the surface of the water that can cause health problems for ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Zika virus, Ebola spread predicted using climate change trends, study identifies 50 U.S. cities at risk
Zika virus and Ebola virus spread can be predicted using climate change trends, according to research. The findings come from the University College London where researchers found that predicting zoonotic diseases may be possible through analyzing fluctuating global demographic and environmental patterns.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Range of Zika vector will increase with climate change
DW asks emerging pathogens expert Amy Vittor about the connection between Zika and climate change. Researchers are using dengue as a reference point, as little is known about the new virus linked to a birth defect.
20 Apr 2018 |
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We Can Expect More Outbreaks Like Zika As the Climate Changes
The factors leading to the current Zika outbreak won’t be clear for some time, but environmental health experts say there’s a good chance such infectious diseases will become more common as the global climate warms. Mosquitoes, the blood-sucking insects responsible for transmitting Zika virus in Brazil and more than 20 other ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Zika virus is a symptom of climate change
The Zika epidemic is one of the ill effects of climate change. Warming climate not being its only cause, current infections in the United States are reported to be primarily travel related. Yet biology favors both higher activity level and expansion into new territory, under higher temperatures, of the mosquitoes, fleas, ticks and ...