Climate Change and Human Health
Climate Change and the Spread of Disease
General Studies
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Food-borne diseases
Rose, Joan B., Paul R. Epstein, Erin K. Lipp, Benjamin
H. Sherman, Susan M. Bernard, and Jonathan A. Patz. 2001.
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Food Poisoning
Bentham, G. 2001. "Food poisoning and climate change,"
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Vector-borne diseases
Patz, Jonathan A. and William K. Reisen. 2001. "Immunology,
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Kovats, R. S., D. H. Campbell-Lendrum, A. J. McMichael,
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Gubler, Duane J., Paul Reiter, Kristie L. Ebi, Wendy Yap,
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Githeko, Andrew K., Steve W. Lindsay, Ulisses E. Confalonieri,
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Sutherst, R.W., J.S.I. Ingram and H. Scherm. 1998. "Global
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Epstein, Paul R., Henry F. Diaz, Scott Elias, Georg Grabherr,
Nicholas E. Graham, Willem J. M. Martens, Ellen Mosley-Thompson,
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of Climate Change: Focus on Mosquito-borne Diseases,"
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 79,
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Nicholls, Neville. 1993. "El Nino-Southern Oscillation
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Malaria
Patz, J.A., M. Hulme, C. Rosenzweig, T.D. Mitchell, R.A.
Goldberg, A.K. Githeko, S. Lele, A.J. McMichael, and D.
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Reiter, Paul. 2000. "From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria
in England in the Little Ice Age," Emerging Infectious
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Martens, P., R. Sari Kovats, S. Nijhof, P. de Vries, M.
T. J. Livermore, D. J. Bradley, J. Cox and Anthony J. McMichael.
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Sutherst, R. W. 1998. "Implications of global change
and climate variability for vector-borne diseases: generic
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Walker, John. 1998. "Malaria in a changing world:
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Russell, Richard C. 1998. "Mosquito-borne arboviruses
in Australia: the current scene and implications of climate
change for human health," International Journal for
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Martens, Willem J.M., Theo H. Jetten and D. A. Focks. 1997.
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to global warming," Climatic Change, Vol. 35, pp. 145-56.
[ABSTRACT]
Lindsay, S. W., and M. H. Birley. 1996. "Climate change
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Bryan, Joan H., Desmond H. Foley and Robert W. Sutherst.
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Medical Journal of Australia, Vol. 164, March 18, pp. 345-347.
FULL TEXT: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/mar18/bryan/bryan.html
Martens, Willem J.M., Louis W. Niessen, Jan Rotmans, Theo
H. Jetten, and Anthony J. McMichael. 1995. "Potential
Impact of Global Climate Change on Malaria Risk," Environmental
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Martin, Phillippe H. and Myriam G. Lefebvre. 1995. "Malaria
and climate: Sensitivity of malaria potential transmission
to climate," Ambio, Vol.24, No. 4, June, pp. 200-7.
Matsuoka, Yuzuru, and Keiko Kai. 1994. "An estimation
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Burgos, J. J., S. I. Curto de Casas, R. U. Carcavallo,
I. Galíndez Girón. 1994. "Global climate
change influence in the distribution of some pathogenic
complexes (malaria and Chagas disease) in Argentina,"
Entomologia y Vectores, Vol. 1, pp. 69-78.
Loevinsohn, Michael E. 1994. "Climatic warming and
increased malaria incidence in Rwanda," The Lancet,
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Dengue
Hales, Simon, Neil de Wet, John Maindonald, and Alistair
Woodward. 2002. "Potential effect of population and
climate changes on global distribution of dengue fever:
an empirical model," The Lancet, Vol. 360, September
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Patz, Jonathan A., Willem J.M. Martens, Dana A. Focks,
and Theo H. Jetten. 1998. "Dengue Fever Epidemic Potential
as Projected by General Circulation Models of Global Climate
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Martens, Willem J.M., Theo H. Jetten and D. A. Focks. 1997.
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[ABSTRACT]
Jetten, T. H., and D. A. Focks. 1997. "Changes in
the distribution of dengue transmission under climate warming
scenarios," American Journal of Tropical Medicine and
Hygiene, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 285-297.
Tick-borne diseases
Estrada-Peña, Agustín. 2002. "Increasing
Habitat Suitability in the United States for the Tick that
Transmits Lyme Disease: A Remote Sensing Approach,"
Environmental Health Perspectives. Vol. 110, No. 7, July,
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Lindgren, Elisabet, and Rolf Gustafson. 2001. "Tick-borne
encephalitis in Sweden and climate change," The Lancet,
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PDF
Lindgren, Elisabet, Lars Tälleklint, and Thomas Polfeldt.
2000. "Impact of Climatic Change on the Northern Latitude
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Lindgren, Elisabet. 1998. "Climate and tickborne encephalitis,"
Conservation Ecology, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 5-7.
FULL TEXT: http://www.consecol.org/vol2/iss1/art5
Chagas Disease
Carcavallo, Rodolfo U. 1999. "Climatic Factors Related
to Chagas Disease Transmission," Memórias do
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 94, Suppl. I, pp. 367-369.
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Carcavallo, Rodolfo U., Cleber Galvão, Dayse da
Silva Rocha, José Jurberg and Susana I. Curto de
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Disease vectors and epidemiology," Entomología
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Burgos, J. J., S. I. Curto de Casas, R. U. Carcavallo,
I. Galíndez Girón. 1994. "Global climate
change influence in the distribution of some pathogenic
complexes (malaria and Chagas disease) in Argentina,"
Entomologia y Vectores, Vol. 1, pp. 69-78.
Schistosomiasis
Martens, Willem J.M., Theo H. Jetten and D. A. Focks. 1997.
"Sensitivity of malaria, schistosomiasis and dengue
to global warming," Climatic Change, Vol. 35, pp. 145-56.
[ABSTRACT]
Leishmaniasis
Cross, Eleanor R. and Kenneth C. Hyams. 1996. "The
Potential Effect of Global Warming on the Geographic and
Seasonal Distribution of Phlebotomus papatasi in Southwest
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Water-borne diseases
Casman, Elizabeth, Baruch Fischhoff, Mitchell Small, et
al. 2001. "Climate Change and Cryptosporidiosis: A
Qualitative Analysis," Climatic Change, Vol. 50, No.
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Rose, Joan B., Paul R. Epstein, Erin K. Lipp, Benjamin
H. Sherman, Susan M. Bernard, and Jonathan A. Patz. 2001.
"Climate Variability and Change in the United States:
Potential Impacts on Water- and Foodborne Diseases Caused
by Microbiologic Agents," Environmental Health Perspectives,
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FULL TEXT:
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Curriero, Frank C. Jonathan A. Patz, Joan B. Rose, and
Subhash Lele. 2001. "The Association Between Extreme
Precipitation and Waterborne Disease Outbreaks in the United
States, 1948-1994," American Journal of Public Health,
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Stanwell-Smith, R. 2001. "Water-borne diseases and
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Cholera
Rodó, Xavier, Mercedes Pascual, George Fuchs, and
A. S. G. Faruque. 2002. "ENSO and cholera: A nonstationary
link related to climate change?," Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 99, No. 20, October 1,
pp. 12901-12906.
FULL TEXT: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/99/20/12901
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Patz, Jonathan A. 2002. "A human disease indicator
for the effects of recent global climate change," Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 99, No. 20, October
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Lipp, Erin K., Anwar Huq, and Rita R. Colwell. 2002. "Effects
of Global Climate on Infectious Disease: the Cholera Model,"
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