How Climate Change

Affects Vector-Borne Diseases

By: Molly Paullus and Rob Salach

Atmospheric Chemistry  52:163

Will vectors suck the life out of the Earth?

1. What is Global Climate Change?

2. What are Vector-Borne Diseases?

3. How Does Climate Change Affect Vector-Borne Diseases?

4. Malaria (An Example of a Vector-Borne Disease)

5. How Climate Change Affects Malaria?

6. Possible Methods to Reduce Vector-Borne Diseases

References:

    Bouma, M.J.  and C. Dye, 1997:  Cycles of malaria associated with El Nino in Venezuela.  Journal of the American Medical Association, 278, 1772-1774.

    Loevinsohn, M., 1994:  Climatic warming and increased malaria incidence in Rwanda.  Lancet, 343, 714-718.

    McMichael, Haines, Sloof and Kovats, eds. Climate Change and Human Health:  An assessment prepared by a Task Group on behalf of the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme.  Geneva: World Health Organization, 1996.   

    Shindell, S. and J. Raso.  Global Climate Change and Human Health.  New York:  American Council on Science and Health, 1997.   www.acsh.org

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