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Climate Change and Infectious Diseases

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Climate change in liaison with several factors, including globalisation and changes of demography, environment and urbanisation, is considered to have an impact on the occurrence and transmission of infectious diseases, comprising vector-borne, rodent-borne, food-borne and water-borne diseases (Wei et al. PLoS One 9:e109476, 2014 [1], World Health Organization in Climate change and human health: risks and responses. World Health Organization, Geneva, 2003 [2]). Variability in temperature, humidity and precipitation as well as the occurrence of extreme weather events are discussed to cause shifts in geographic range and incidence of infectious diseases due to effects on the occurrence of transmitting vectors, the suitability of environments, or even human behaviours leading to exposure (World Health Organization in Climate change and human health: risks and responses. World Health Organization, Geneva, 2003 [2], Suk et al. in Int J Environ Res Public Health 11:2218–2235, 2014 [3], Wu et al. Environ Int 86:14–23, 2016 [4]).

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  1. Department of Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene (XXI), Tropical Microbiology and Entomology Branch at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Rebecca Hinz, Hagen Frickmann & Andreas Krüger

  2. Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

    Hagen Frickmann

  3. Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

    Rebecca Hinz

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Hinz, R., Frickmann, H., Krüger, A. (2019). Climate Change and Infectious Diseases. In: Palocz-Andresen, M., Szalay, D., Gosztom, A., Sípos, L., Taligás, T. (eds) International Climate Protection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03816-8_34

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