The twenty-first century has witnessed a wave of severe infectious disease outbreaks, not
least the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a devastating impact on lives and livelihoods …

The evidence that climate warming is changing the distribution of Ixodes ticks and the
pathogens they transmit is reviewed and evaluated. The primary approaches are either …

For epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and
predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing importance. This book provides a …

Abstract The World Health Organisation estimates that the warming and precipitation trends
due to anthropogenic climate change of the past 30 years already claim over 150,000 lives …

Seasonal variations in temperature, rainfall and resource availability are ubiquitous and can
exert strong pressures on population dynamics. Infectious diseases provide some of the best …

Zimbabwe offers the most recent example of the tragedy that befalls a country and its people
when cholera strikes. The 2008–2009 outbreak rapidly spread across every province and …

The notion that climate change will generally increase human and wildlife diseases has
garnered considerable public attention, but remains controversial and seems inconsistent …

Climate change is expected to have complex effects on infectious diseases, causing some to
increase, others to decrease, and many to shift their distributions. There have been several …

Time series regression has been developed and long used to evaluate the short-term
associations of air pollution and weather with mortality or morbidity of non-infectious …

Parasites typically have broader thermal limits than hosts, so large performance gaps
between pathogens and their cold‐and warm‐adapted hosts should occur at relatively warm …