Role Of Climate Change In Disease Spread Examined
Sunday, February 8, 2009 - 23:35
in Health & Medicine
Concerns have long been raised about the implications of global climate change for the spread of arboviruses. However, while alterations in temperature and rainfall are important factors in making new territory hospitable to an invading arbovirus, studies of recent emergences of West Nile virus, Chikungunya virus, Rift Valley fever virus and Bluetongue virus show that many other forces also play significant parts in new patters of viral emergence.
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