Effects of climate change and human activities on vector-borne diseases

WM de Souza, SC Weaver - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
Vector-borne diseases are transmitted by haematophagous arthropods (for example,
mosquitoes, ticks and sandflies) to humans and wild and domestic animals, with the largest …

Public health implications of drought in a climate change context: a critical review

C Salvador, R Nieto, SM Vicente-Serrano… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Extreme weather events are expected to increase due to climate change, which could pose
an additional burden of morbidity and mortality. In recent decades, drought severity has …

Measuring the effects of COVID-19-related disruption on dengue transmission in southeast Asia and Latin America: a statistical modelling study

Y Chen, N Li, J Lourenço, L Wang… - The Lancet infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented disruption to society,
which indirectly affects infectious disease dynamics. We aimed to assess the effects of …

[HTML][HTML] Interactions between climate change, urban infrastructure and mobility are driving dengue emergence in Vietnam

R Gibb, FJ Colón-González, PT Lan, PT Huong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Dengue is expanding globally, but how dengue emergence is shaped locally by interactions
between climatic and socio-environmental factors is not well understood. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Review of the ecology and behaviour of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in Western Africa and implications for vector control

BR Egid, M Coulibaly, SK Dadzie, B Kamgang… - Current research in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Western Africa is vulnerable to arboviral disease transmission, having recently experienced
major outbreaks of chikungunya, dengue, yellow fever and Zika. However, there have been …

Effects of high temperatures and heatwaves on dengue fever: a systematic review and meta-analysis

YT Damtew, M Tong, BM Varghese, O Anikeeva… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Studies have shown that dengue virus transmission increases in association
with ambient temperature. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess …

A retrospective study of climate change affecting dengue: Evidences, challenges and future directions

S Bhatia, D Bansal, S Patil, S Pandya… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is unexpected weather patterns that can create an alarming situation. Due
to climate change, various sectors are affected, and one of the sectors is healthcare. As a …

Bridging landscape ecology and urban science to respond to the rising threat of mosquito-borne diseases

PA Kache, M Santos-Vega, AM Stewart-Ibarra… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The prevalence of diseases borne by mosquitoes, particularly in the genus Aedes, is rising
worldwide. This has been attributed, in part, to the dramatic rates of contemporary …

The impact of climate suitability, urbanisation, and connectivity on the expansion of dengue in 21st century Brazil

SA Lee, T Economou, R de Castro Catão… - PLoS Neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Dengue is hyperendemic in Brazil, with outbreaks affecting all regions. Previous studies
identified geographical barriers to dengue transmission in Brazil, beyond which certain …

Climate-sensitive disease outbreaks in the aftermath of extreme climatic events: A scoping review

T Alcayna, I Fletcher, R Gibb, L Tremblay, S Funk… - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
Outbreaks of climate-sensitive infectious diseases (CSID) in the aftermath of extreme
climatic events, such as floods, droughts, tropical cyclones, and heatwaves, are of high …