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- Title
The ecology of climate change and infectious diseases: comment.
- Authors
Epstein, Paul
- Abstract
In this article the authors discuss the effects of climate change on the geographic ranges of infectious diseases. It states that climate change also refers to the change of weather which affects the timing, intensity and location of disease outbreaks. Meanwhile, the authors assert that the instability of climate changes and global warming poses threats to human health and the health of life-support systems and environmental and social surroundings wherein human beings depend.
- Subjects
INFECTIOUS disease transmission; RISK assessment of climate change; CLIMATE change; GLOBAL warming &; the environment; DISEASE outbreaks
- Publication
Ecology, 2010, Vol 91, Issue 3, p925
- ISSN
0012-9658
- Publication type
Opinion
- DOI
10.1890/09-0761.1