A team of infectious diseases experts is calling for more awareness and preparedness in the medical field to deal with the impact of climate change on the spread of diseases. Their article, published in JAMA raises the...
Climate change has long been considered a threat to our planet, but recent evidence underscores its significant impact on human health, particularly in relation to infectious diseases. A recent analysis revealed that an...
From COVID to Lyme disease to various fungal afflictions, climate change has already worsened over 200 infectious diseases. Heat waves, floods, droughts, and rising temperatures fueled by climate change have made the...
The link between global warming and the increased risk of diseases spread by organisms such as viruses and bacteria has been well known for a few years – cholera, malaria, Lyme disease, West Nile virus and the Zika...
Temperature variation affects pathogens and their hosts in distinct ways, and these organisms are influenced by the type of variation and the average background temperature it is applied to. Temperature fluctuations...
Scientists have proposed a new model of animal diseases that includes the role of the microbiome. Their research suggests that climate change may lead to the emergence of new infectious diseases. The COVID-19 pandemic...
A catastrophic loss in biodiversity, reckless destruction of wildland and warming temperatures have allowed disease to explode. Ignoring the connection between climate change and pandemics would be “dangerous delusion,”...
The weather phenomenon El Niño and global warming fueled the spread of the Zika virus in South America, scientists at the University of Liverpool say. The study comes after The World Health Organization declared last...
The appearance of infectious diseases in new places and new hosts, such as West Nile virus and Ebola, is a predictable result of climate change, says a noted zoologist affiliated with the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of...
Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, can collect detailed information in real time at relatively low cost for ecological research. In a new Opinion piece published in the Cell Press journal Trends in Parasitology...