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Open AccessIndoor resting behavior of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in northeastern Thailand
Aedes aegypti is a vector of several arboviruses, notably dengue virus (DENV), which causes dengue fever and is often found resting indoors. Culex spp. are largely nuisance mosquitoes but can include species that...
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Open AccessPublic health determinants of child malaria mortality: a surveillance study within Siaya County, Western Kenya
Malaria deaths among children have been declining worldwide during the last two decades. Despite preventive, epidemiologic and therapy-development work, mortality rate decline has stagnated in western Kenya re...
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Open AccessAssessing the associations between Aedes larval indices and dengue risk in Kalutara district, Sri Lanka: a hierarchical time series analysis from 2010 to 2019
Dengue is a major public health problem in Sri Lanka. Aedes vector surveillance and monitoring of larval indices are routine, long-established public health practices in the country. However, the association betw...
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Open AccessClimate Change and Cascading Risks from Infectious Disease
Climate change is adversely affecting the burden of infectious disease throughout the world, which is a health security threat. Climate-sensitive infectious disease includes vector-borne diseases such as malar...
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Climate Change Pathways and Potential Future Risks to Nutrition and Infection
Climate change is a recognized theme of the twenty-first century, affecting both nutrition and infection by multiple pathways and mechanisms. This chapter outlines the linkages between climate change, nutritio...
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Vector-Borne Diseases in a Changing Climate and World
One of the most important global effects of climate change is likely to be on infectious diseases, especially those transmitted by insect vectors (e.g., mosquitos, ticks) that strongly depend on a specific cli...
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Author Correction: Climate change: an enduring challenge for vector-borne disease prevention and control
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Climate change: an enduring challenge for vector-borne disease prevention and control
Climate change is already affecting vector-borne disease transmission and spread, and its impacts are likely to worsen. In the face of ongoing climate change, we must intensify efforts to prevent and control v...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Using remote sensing environmental data to forecast malaria incidence at a rural district hospital in Western Kenya
A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has not been fixed in the paper.
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Open AccessEstimating the probability of dengue virus introduction and secondary autochthonous cases in Europe
Given the speed of air travel, diseases even with a short viremia such as dengue can be easily exported to dengue naïve areas within 24 hours. We set out to estimate the risk of dengue virus introductions via ...
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Open AccessSocioenvironmental factors associated with heat and cold-related mortality in Vadu HDSS, western India: a population-based case-crossover study
Ambient temperatures (heat and cold) are associated with mortality, but limited research is available about groups most vulnerable to these effects in rural populations. We estimated the effects of heat and co...
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Open AccessUsing remote sensing environmental data to forecast malaria incidence at a rural district hospital in Western Kenya
Malaria surveillance data provide opportunity to develop forecasting models. Seasonal variability in environmental factors correlate with malaria transmission, thus the identification of transmission patterns ...
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Open AccessCurrent medical research funding and frameworks are insufficient to address the health risks of global environmental change
Three major international agreements signed in 2015 are key milestones for transitioning to more sustainable and resilient societies: the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; the Sendai Framework for Di...
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Misconceptions of global catastrophe
American attitudes to changing weather, and therefore to climate change, have been analysed on the basis of US migration patterns since the 1970s. The findings have implications for the success of global clima...
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Open AccessResearch on Climate and Dengue in Malaysia: A Systematic Review
Dengue is a climate-sensitive infectious disease. Climate-based dengue early warning may be a simple, low-cost, and effective tool for enhancing surveillance and control. Scientific studies on climate and deng...
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Open AccessAchieving a 25% reduction in premature non-communicable disease mortality: the Swedish population as a cohort study
The 2012 World Health Assembly set a target for Member States to reduce premature non-communicable disease (NCD) mortality by 25% over the period 2010 to 2025. This reflected concerns about increasing NCD mort...
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Open AccessThe effect of heat waves on mortality in susceptible groups: a cohort study of a mediterranean and a northern European City
Climate change is projected to increase the number and intensity of extreme weather events, for example heat waves. Heat waves have adverse health effects, especially for the elderly, since chronic diseases ar...
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Correction: Corrigendum: Attributing mortality from extreme temperatures to climate change in Stockholm, Sweden
Nature Climate Change 3, 1050–1054 (2013); published online 20 October 2013; corrected online 23 June 2014. In the version of this Article originally published, the stated number of heat extremes during the pe...
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Reply to 'Adaptation to extreme heat in Stockholm County, Sweden'
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Attributing mortality from extreme temperatures to climate change in Stockholm, Sweden
A changing climate is increasing the frequency, intensity, duration and spatial extent of heat waves. These changes are associated with increased human mortality during heat extremes. At the other end of the t...
