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Climate change explains much of this year’s jump in dengue cases and the long-term increase in the disease over the past two decades. There are ever fewer places where temperatures drop below 15°C in winter, the level at which mosquitoes tend to die out, so there are more virus-carrying insects in circulation, ready to surge, once temperatures rise in the spring.
#virology #parasitology #microbiology #VectorBiology #Brazil #Argentina #Uruguay #PublicHealth #morbidity https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/04/25/dengue-fever-is-surging-in-latin-america

Climate change explains much of this year’s jump in dengue cases and the long-term increase in the disease over the past two decades. There are ever fewer places where temperatures drop below 15°C in winter, the level at which mosquitoes tend to die out, so there are more virus-carrying insects in circulation, ready to surge, once temperatures rise in the spring.
#virology #parasitology #microbiology #VectorBiology #Brazil #Argentina #Uruguay #PublicHealth #morbidity https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/04/25/dengue-fever-is-surging-in-latin-america

Climate change explains much of this year’s jump in dengue cases and the long-term increase in the disease over the past two decades. There are ever fewer places where temperatures drop below 15°C in winter, the level at which mosquitoes tend to die out, so there are more virus-carrying insects in circulation, ready to surge, once temperatures rise in the spring.
#virology #parasitology #microbiology #VectorBiology #Brazil #Argentina #Uruguay #PublicHealth #morbidity https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/04/25/dengue-fever-is-surging-in-latin-america

Climate change explains much of this year’s jump in dengue cases and the long-term increase in the disease over the past two decades. There are ever fewer places where temperatures drop below 15°C in winter, the level at which mosquitoes tend to die out, so there are more virus-carrying insects in circulation, ready to surge, once temperatures rise in the spring.
#virology #parasitology #microbiology #VectorBiology #Brazil #Argentina #Uruguay #PublicHealth #morbidity https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/04/25/dengue-fever-is-surging-in-latin-america

Climate change explains much of this year’s jump in dengue cases and the long-term increase in the disease over the past two decades. There are ever fewer places where temperatures drop below 15°C in winter, the level at which mosquitoes tend to die out, so there are more virus-carrying insects in circulation, ready to surge, once temperatures rise in the spring.
#virology #parasitology #microbiology #VectorBiology #Brazil #Argentina #Uruguay #PublicHealth #morbidity https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/04/25/dengue-fever-is-surging-in-latin-america

"The wildfires in Canada, the orange Blade Runner skies on the East Coast, the hot ocean, the rapidly melting glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica and the Himalayas, the high price of food, the spread of vector-borne diseases in unexpected places — it is all connected, and it is all driven by rising heat." #ClimateCrisis #climatechange #collapse #ecology #environmentalism #vectorbiology #mortality #morbidity 2/2