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Public Health Implications of a Changing Climate
The impact of climate change and global warming on human populations reaches beyond far immediate weather-related threats. With documented hazards including rising seas and temperatures, extreme weather events, loss of species and encroachment of disease vectors into new regions, climate change could disrupt or endanger virtually all life on Earth. This Collection uses the lens of climate change to address effects on public health with a particular focus on the spread of infectious diseases. These articles present impactful research on One Health approaches, as well as the interaction between government responses and funding or resources.
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PLOS Biology Building resilience to mosquito-borne diseases in the Caribbean
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PLOS Biology Understanding how temperature shifts could impact infectious disease
Climate change is expected to have complex effects on infectious diseases, causing some to increase, others to decrease, and many to shift…
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PLOS Biology Effects of climate change on parasites and disease in estuarine and nearshore environments
Information on parasites and disease in marine ecosystems lags behind terrestrial systems, increasing the challenge of predicting…
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PLOS Genetics Slower environmental change hinders adaptation from standing genetic variation
Evolutionary responses to environmental change depend on the time available for adaptation before environmental degradation leads to…
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PLOS Biology Quantifying the effects of temperature on mosquito and parasite traits that determine the transmission potential of human malaria
Malaria transmission is known to be strongly impacted by temperature. The current understanding of how temperature affects mosquito and…
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PLOS Biology Development, environmental degradation, and disease spread in the Brazilian Amazon
The Amazon is Brazil’s greatest natural resource and invaluable to the rest of the world as a buffer against climate change. The recent…
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PLOS ONE Mapping the global potential distributions of two arboviral vectors Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus under changing climate
Background: Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are the primary vectors that transmit several arboviral diseases, including dengue,…
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PLOS ONE Predicting the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on malaria in coastal Kenya
Background: The transmission of malaria is highly variable and depends on a range of climatic and anthropogenic factors. This study…
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PLOS ONE Exposure to air pollution and self-reported effects on Chinese students: A case study of 13 megacities
Air pollution causes severe physical and psychological health complications. Considering China’s continuously-deteriorating air quality,…
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PLOS ONE Mapping human vulnerability to climate change in the Brazilian Amazon: The construction of a municipal vulnerability index
Vulnerability, understood as the propensity to be adversely affected, has attained importance in the context of climate change by helping…
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PLOS ONE Current and Future Distribution of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.) (Acari: Ixodidae) in North America
Acarological surveys in areas outside the currently believed leading edge of the distribution of lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum),…
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PLoS Pathogens Plague and Climate: Scales Matter
Plague is enzootic in wildlife populations of small mammals in central and eastern Asia, Africa, South and North America, and has…
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PLoS Pathogens Environmental Predictors of Seasonal Influenza Epidemics across Temperate and Tropical Climates
Human influenza infections exhibit a strong seasonal cycle in temperate regions. Recent laboratory and epidemiological evidence…
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PLOS Medicine Air-quality-related health impacts from climate change and from adaptation of cooling demand for buildings in the eastern United States: An interdisciplinary modeling study
Background: Climate change negatively impacts human health through heat stress and exposure to worsened air pollution, amongst other…
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PLoS Medicine Water Supply and Health
As one article in a four-part PLoS Medicine series on water and sanitation, Paul Hunter and colleagues argue that much more effort is…
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PLoS Medicine Climate Drives the Meningitis Epidemics Onset in West Africa
Background: Every year West African countries within the Sahelo-Sudanian band are afflicted with major meningococcal meningitis (MCM)…
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PLOS Medicine The association between heatwaves and risk of hospitalization in Brazil: A nationwide time series study between 2000 and 2015
Background: To our knowledge, no study has assessed the association between heatwaves and risk of hospitalization and how it may change…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Central Latin America: Two decades of challenges in neglected tropical disease control
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Seasonal temperature variation influences climate suitability for dengue, chikungunya, and Zika transmission
Dengue, chikungunya, and Zika virus epidemics transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have recently (re)emerged and spread throughout the…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Global expansion and redistribution of Aedes-borne virus transmission risk with climate change
Forecasting the impacts of climate change on Aedes-borne viruses—especially dengue, chikungunya, and Zika—is a key component of public…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Projecting the future of dengue under climate change scenarios: Progress, uncertainties and research needs
Background: Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease and its transmission is closely linked to climate. We aimed to review available…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Global “worming”: Climate change and its projected general impact on human helminth infections
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