Climate change, its impact on emerging infectious diseases and new technologies to combat the challenge

Improved sanitation, increased access to health care, and advances in preventive and clinical medicine have reduced the mortality and morbidity rates of several infectious diseases. However, recent outbreaks of several emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) have caused substantial mortality and morbidity, and the frequency of these outbreaks is likely to increase due to pathogen, environmental, and population effects driven by climate change. Extreme or persistent changes in temperature, precipitation, humidity, and air pollution associated with climate change can, for example, expand the size of EID reservoirs, increase host-pathogen and cross-species host contacts to promote transmission or spillover events,…

• UD
  U.S. Department of Defense

  Award: W8IXWH1910926
• NI
  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

  Awards: R01AI177986, R01AI144168, R01AI179714, R01AI173021, R01AI174964, R01AI175618