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CLIMATE CHANGE AND SPREAD OF DISEASE
General
Epstein, Paul R. 2002. "Climate Change and Infectious
Disease: Stormy Weather Ahead?" Epidemiology, Vol.
13, No. 4, July, pp. 373-5.
PDF: http://www.med.harvard.edu/chge/epi.pdf
National Research Council. 2001. Under the Weather: Climate,
Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease. National Academy Press:
Washington, D.C.
FULL TEXT: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309072786/html/
Rose, Joan B., Anwar Huq, and Erin K. Lipp. 2001. Health,
Climate and Infectious Disease: A Global Perspective. American
Academy of Microbiology: Washington, D.C.
PDF: www.asmusa.org/acasrc/pdfs/climate2.pdf
Patz, Jonathan A., and Steven W. Lindsay. 1999. "New challenges, new tools: the impact of climate change on infectious diseases," Current Opinion in Microbiology, Vol. 2, No. 4, August, pp. 445-451.
Colwell, Rita R., and Jonathan A. Patz. 1998. Climate,
Infectious Disease and Health: An Interdisciplinary Perspective.
American Academy of Microbiology: Washington, D.C.
PDF: www.asmusa.org/acasrc/Colloquia/climate.pdf
Patz, J. A., P. R. Epstein, T. A. Burke and J. M. Balbus. 1996. "Global climate change and emerging infectious diseases," Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 275, No. 3, January 17, pp. 217-223. [ABSTRACT]
Food-borne diseases
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,
Vol. 109, Suppl. 2, May, pp. 211-221. http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2001/suppl-2/211-221rose/rose-full.html.
[ABSTRACT]
Food Poisoning
Bentham, G. 2001. "Food poisoning and climate change,"
in: Department of Health. 2001. Health Effects of Climate
Change in the UK.
Available at: http://www.doh.gov.uk/airpollution/climatechange02/
Bentham, G. C., and I. H. Langford. 1995. "Climate change and the incidence of food poisoning in England and Wales," International Journal Biometeorology, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 81-86. [ABSTRACT]
Vector-borne diseases
Patz, Jonathan A. and William K. Reisen. 2001. "Immunology, climate change and vector-borne diseases," Trends in Immunology, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 171-172. [ABSTRACT]
Kovats, R. S., D. H. Campbell-Lendrum, A. J. McMichael, A. Woodward, J. St H. Cox. 2001. "Early effects of climate change: do they include changes in vector-borne disease?," Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 356, No. 1411, July 29, pp. 1057-68. [ABSTRACT]
Gubler, Duane J., Paul Reiter, Kristie L. Ebi, Wendy Yap,
Roger Nasci, and Jonathan A. Patz. 2001. "Climate Variability
and Change in the United States: Potential Impacts on Vector-
and Rodent-Borne Diseases," Environmental Health Perspectives,
Vol. 109, Suppl. 2, May, pp. 223-233. [ABSTRACT]
PDF: http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2001/suppl-2/223-233gubler/gubler.pdf
Reiter, Paul. 2001. "Climate Change and Mosquito-Borne Disease," Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 109, Suppl. 1, March, pp. 141-161. [ABSTRACT]
Tol, Richard S.J. and Hadi Dowlatabadi. 2001. "Vector-borne
diseases, development & climate change," Integrated
Assessment, Vol. 2, pp. 173-181.
PDF: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/Wiss/FB/15/Sustainability/Tol.pdf
D. J. Rogers, S. Randolph, S. Lindsay, and C. Thomas. 2001.
"Vector-borne diseases and climate change," in:
Department of Health. 2001. Health Effects of Climate Change
in the UK.
Available at: http://www.doh.gov.uk/airpollution/climatechange02/
Githeko, Andrew K., Steve W. Lindsay, Ulisses E. Confalonieri,
and Jonathan A. Patz. 2000. "Climate change and vector-borne
diseases: a regional analysis," Bulletin of the World
Health Organization, Vol. 78, No. 9, pp. 1136 -1147.
PDF: http://www.who.int/docstore/bulletin/pdf/2000/issue9/bu0737.pdf
Sutherst, R.W., J.S.I. Ingram and H. Scherm. 1998. "Global
Change and Vector-borne Diseases," Parasitology Today,
Vol. 14, No. 8, pp. 297-299.
PDF: http://gcte.org/Global%20Change-VDiseases.pdf
Epstein, Paul R., Henry F. Diaz, Scott Elias, Georg Grabherr,
Nicholas E. Graham, Willem J. M. Martens, Ellen Mosley-Thompson,
and Joel Susskind. 1998. "Biological and Physical Signs
of Climate Change: Focus on Mosquito-borne Diseases,"
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 79,
No. 3, March, pp. 409-17.
PDF: http://www.med.harvard.edu/chge/BAMS.pdf
Burnett, H. Sterling and Merrill Matthews Jr. 1997. Sick
Argument: Global Warming and the Spread of Tropical Diseases.
National Center for Policy Analysis: Washington, D.C.
FULL TEXT: http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba241.html
Martens, Willem J.M., Theo H. Jetten, J. Rotmans and L. W. Niessen. 1995. "Climate change and vector-borne diseases: A global modeling perspective," Global Environmental Change, Vol. 5, No. 3, June, pp. 195-209. [ABSTRACT]
Rogers, David J., and Michael J Packer. 1993. "Vector-borne diseases, models, and global change," The Lancet, Vol. 342, No. 8882, November 20, pp. 1282-1284.
Nicholls, Neville. 1993. "El Nino-Southern Oscillation and vector-borne disease," The Lancet, Vol. 342, No. 8882, November 20, pp. 1284-1285.
Malaria
Patz, J.A., M. Hulme, C. Rosenzweig, T.D. Mitchell, R.A.
Goldberg, A.K. Githeko, S. Lele, A.J. McMichael, and D.
Le Sueur. 2002. "Regional warming and malaria resurgence,"
Nature, Vol. 420, pp. 627-628. [ABSTRACT]
PDF: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/gpol/docs/2002/2002_PatzHulme.pdf
Rogers, D. J., and S. E. Randolph. 2000. "The global spread of malaria in a future, warmer world," Science, Vol. 289, No. 5485, September 8, pp. 1763-6. [ABSTRACT]
Reiter, Paul. 2000. "From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria
in England in the Little Ice Age," Emerging Infectious
Diseases, Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan/Feb.
FULL TEXT: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no1/reiter.htm
Martens, P., R. Sari Kovats, S. Nijhof, P. de Vries, M.
T. J. Livermore, D. J. Bradley, J. Cox and Anthony J. McMichael.
1999. "Climate change and future populations at risk
of malaria," Global Environmental Change, Vol. 9, Suppl.
1, October, pp. S89-S107. [ABSTRACT]
PDF: http://147.46.94.112/e_journals/pdf_full/journal_g/g02_199905_099907.pdf
Sutherst, R. W. 1998. "Implications of global change and climate variability for vector-borne diseases: generic approaches to impact assessments," International Journal for Parasitology, Vol. 28, No. 6, 1 June, pp. 935-945. [ABSTRACT]
Walker, John. 1998. "Malaria in a changing world: an Australian perspective," International Journal for Parasitology, Vol. 28, No. 6, 1 June, pp. 947-953. [ABSTRACT]
Russell, Richard C. 1998. "Mosquito-borne arboviruses in Australia: the current scene and implications of climate change for human health," International Journal for Parasitology, Vol. 28, No. 6, 1 June, pp. 955-969. [ABSTRACT]
Malakooti, M. A., K. Biomndo, and G. D. Shanks. 1998. "Reemergence
of Epidemic Malaria in the Highlands of Western Kenya,"
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol. 4, No. 4, Oct-Dec 1998;
FULL TEXT: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol4no4/malakooti.htm
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]
Lindsay, S. W., and M. H. Birley. 1996. "Climate change and malaria transmission," Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Vol. 90, No. 6, Dec., pp. 573-88. [ABSTRACT]
Bryan, Joan H., Desmond H. Foley and Robert W. Sutherst.
1996. "Malaria transmission and climate change in Australia,"
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 Health Perspectives, Vol. 103, No. 5, May, pp. 458-64. [ABSTRACT]
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 of climatic change effects on malaria," Journal of Global Environment Engineering, Vol. 1, p. 1-15. [ABSTRACT]
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, Vol. 343, No. 8899, March 19, pp. 714-18.
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
14, pp. 830-834.
FULL TEXT
PDF
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 Change," Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 106, No. 3, March, pp. 147-153. [ABSTRACT]
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]
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, pp. 635-640. [ABSTRACT]
Lindgren, Elisabet, and Rolf Gustafson. 2001. "Tick-borne
encephalitis in Sweden and climate change," The Lancet,
Vol. 358, No. 9275, 07 July, p. 16-18.
PDF
Lindgren, Elisabet, Lars Tälleklint, and Thomas Polfeldt. 2000. "Impact of Climatic Change on the Northern Latitude Limit and Population Density of the Disease-Transmitting European Tick Ixodes ricinus," Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 108, No. 2, February, pp. 119-123. [ABSTRACT]
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.
PDF: http://www.dbbm.fiocruz.br/www-mem/94sup1/6000.pdf
Carcavallo, Rodolfo U., Cleber Galvão, Dayse da Silva Rocha, José Jurberg and Susana I. Curto de Casas. 1998. "Predicted effects of warming on Chagas' Disease vectors and epidemiology," Entomología y Vectores, Vol. 5, No. 3, Junho, p. 137.
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 Asia," Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 104, No. 7, July, pp. 724-727. [ABSTRACT]
Water-borne diseases
Casman, Elizabeth, Baruch Fischhoff, Mitchell Small, et al. 2001. "Climate Change and Cryptosporidiosis: A Qualitative Analysis," Climatic Change, Vol. 50, No. 1-2, July, pp. 219-249. [ABSTRACT]
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,
Vol. 109, Suppl. 2, May, pp. 211-221. [ABSTRACT]
FULL TEXT:
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2001/suppl-2/211-221rose/rose-full.html.
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, Vol. 91, No. 8, August, pp. 1194-1199.
Stanwell-Smith, R. 2001. "Water-borne diseases and
climate change," in: Department of Health. 2001. Health
Effects of Climate Change in the UK.
Available at: http://www.doh.gov.uk/airpollution/climatechange02/
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
PDF: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/99/20/12901.pdf
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
1, pp. 12506-08.
FULL TEXT: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/99/20/12506
PDF: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/99/20/12506.pdf
Lipp, Erin K., Anwar Huq, and Rita R. Colwell. 2002. "Effects
of Global Climate on Infectious Disease: the Cholera Model,"
Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Vol. 15, No. 4, October,
pp. 757-770. [ABSTRACT]
PDF: http://www.mbio.ncsu.edu/SL/MB590790/cholerae/cholera.pdf
Colwell, R.R. 1996. "Global climate and infectious disease: the cholera paradigm," Science, Vol. 274, No. 5295, Dec 20, pp. 2025-31. [ABSTRACT]
