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Vector-bornedisease spread. Vector-bornedisease spread. Investigate how climate change is altering the geographic range of vector-bornediseases dengue fever and even malaria. Zoonotic diseases. Health care access. Vector-bornediseases.
The increasing number of cases of dengue and malaria that we are seeing at the moment in the UK are travel-related, so people have picked them up when visiting countries where mosquito-borne illnesses are transmitted. This has contributed to the spread of vector-bornediseases to areas where they were previously not present, including the UK.
. “When these locally acquired cases occur, … we want to act on them pretty quickly so that it does not become an endemic infection in our region,” said Aiman Halai, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s Vector-BorneDisease Unit.
Schmidt, “Pollen Overload: Seasonal Allergies in a Changing Climate”, EnvironmentalHealth Perspectives, vol. Mead, “Meteorological Influences on the Seasonality of Lyme Disease in the United States”, The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. e55-e55, 2001. Available: 10.1542/peds.108.3.e55
Resources Chikungunya Fact Sheet , WHO Chikungunya in the United States , CDC Areas at Risk for Chikungunya , CDC Chikungunya, Climate Change, and Human Rights from Harvards Health and Human Rights Checking on Chikungunya , NASA Temperature and transmission of chikungunya, dengue, and Zika viruses: A systematic review of experimental studies on Aedes (..)
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