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Climate Change: Impact on Infectious Diseases

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Infections and the Rheumatic Diseases

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Climate change is the effect of global warming and carbon dioxide rise on weather conditions (surface temperature fluctuations, sea levels, heat waves, drought, storms, and hurricanes). Collectively these effects are predicted to both positively and negatively influence the geographic range and incidence of a variety of infectious diseases. Particularly affected are those infections which have seasonal incidence or depend on vectors present in soil or water. It is likely that rheumatologists will see increased infectious disease over the coming century and new infections in populations or geographic regions where they have not been seen before.

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    Judd Shellito

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Shellito, J. (2019). Climate Change: Impact on Infectious Diseases. In: Espinoza, L. (eds) Infections and the Rheumatic Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23311-2_40

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