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Climate and health: Stories to watch in 2025

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Investigate how climate change is altering the geographic range of vector-borne diseases dengue fever and even malaria. Zoonotic diseases. Multiple environmental changes, including climate, have affected ecological patterns and made disease spillovers from animals to humans more likely. Infrastructure damage.

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Less Prep, More Insights: GIDEON R for Epidemiology Research

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The researchers recommended better animal control practices through vaccinations, occupational and personal hygiene, farm sanitation, and more to lower the number of cases [6]. Desbordes, “Spatial dynamics of major infectious diseases outbreaks: A global empirical assessment,” Journal of Mathematical Economics, vol.

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5 story ideas on migrant health crises facing U.S.-Mexico border

Association of Health Care Journalists

The strategy involves surveillance systems, data-sharing across sectors, joint risk assessments, and integrated interventions to address zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food safety, and environmental health challenges all factors that are not adequately in practice in the region.