Earthquakes are among the most impressive natural phenomena with very high potential to
set off a chain of effects that significantly affects public health through casualties and injuries …

Background Natural disasters are increasing in their frequency and complexity.
Understanding how their cascading effects can lead to infectious disease outbreaks is …

On 6 February 2023, Turkey and Syria were hit by two major earthquakes that caused
extremely heavy structural damage to buildings and infrastructure in one of the most densely …

Infectious disease outbreaks are increasingly recognised as events that exacerbate impacts
or prolong recovery following disasters. Yet, our understanding of the frequency, geography …

Natural disasters may lead to infectious disease outbreaks when they result in substantial
population displacement and exacerbate synergic risk factors (change in the environment, in …

Introduction Many infectious diseases are sensitive to climatic changes; specifically,
flooding. This systematic literature review aimed to strengthen the quality and completeness …

The relationship between natural disasters and communicable diseases is frequently
misconstrued. The risk for outbreaks is often presumed to be very high in the chaos that …

Human-driven climatic changes will fundamentally influence patterns of human health,
including infectious disease clusters and epidemics following extreme weather events …

After geophysical disasters (ie, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis), media reports
almost always stress the risk for epidemics; whether this risk is genuine has been debated …

Abstract Background In December 2019, the Chinese city of Wuhan reported a novel
pneumonia caused by COVID-19. While the COVID-19 pandemic has been increasingly …