Global warming and the possible globalization of vector-borne diseases: a call for increased awareness and action.

Trop Med Health

Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan ; School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8523 Japan.

Published: November 2016

Human activities such as burning of fossil fuels play a role in upsetting a previously more balanced and harmonious ecosystem. Climate change-a significant variation in the usual pattern of Earth's average weather conditions is a product of this ecosystem imbalance, and the rise in the Earth's average temperature (global warming) is a prominent evidence. There is a correlation between global warming and the ease of transmission of infectious diseases. Therefore, with global health in focus, we herein opine a stepping-up of research activities regarding global warming and infectious diseases globally.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121979PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-016-0039-0DOI Listing

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