Climate change and mosquito-borne disease.

By P. Reiter. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2001

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Global atmospheric temperatures are presently in a warming phase that began 250--300 years ago. Speculations on the potential impact of continued warming on human health often focus on mosquito-borne diseases. Elementary models suggest that higher global temperatures will enhance their transmission rates and extend their geographic ranges. However, the histories of three such diseases--malaria, yellow fever, and dengue--reveal that climate has rarely been the principal determinant of their prevalence or range; human activities and their impact on local ecology have generally been much more significant. It is therefore inappropriate to use climate-based models to predict future prevalence.

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Invasive species, climate change and ecosystem-based adaptation : addressing multiple drivers of global change (2010, background): “Population migrations, increases in density, as well as poor sanitary conditions may create vectors for the spread of disease, a phenomenon that will likely be compounded by expanded ranges of diseases like malaria, dengue and yellow fever under warming climate scenarios (Reiter 2001).”
The global distribution of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus (2015, neutral): “…are more commonly found in rural and peri-urban settings, feeding readily on a variety of mammalian and avian species, although Ae. albopictus shows similar larval development behavior in artificial containers ( Reiter, 2001 ; Gratz, 2004 ; Juliano and Philip Lounibos, 2005 ; Li et al., 2014 ).”
Epidemiology of dengue: past, present and future prospects (2013, background): “Their eventual control was not due to a change in climate, but rather due to changes with industrialization and modernization.(56,63)”
Impact of climate change on human infectious diseases: Empirical evidence and human adaptation. (2016, background): “aegypti in Memphis, USA where the winter temperature normally falls below 0 °C (Reiter, 2001).”
Comparative quantification of health risks: Conceptual framework and methodological issues (2003, background): “All these effects are in turn modulated by local economic activities, land-use patterns, and income [61–63].”
Global spread and persistence of dengue. (2008, background): “Other perspectives highlight the overriding importance of infrastructure and socioeconomic differences that exist today and already prevent the transmission of vector-borne diseases, including dengue, even in the continued presence of their vectors (104).”
Who likes it hot? A global analysis of the climatic, ecological, and evolutionary determinants of warming tolerance in ants (2012, background): “However, analyses of the spatial patterns in the responses of insects are few relative to other taxa (Thomas et al., 2004), with the possible exception of work based on insect pests (Deutsch et al., 2008) and disease vectors (Reiter, 2001; Ogden et al., 2006).”
Exploring the diversity of flies (Diptera) (2002, background): “Anthropogenic changes in climate may (Epstein 2001) or may not (Reiter 2001) increase this contact, and resistance is developing to the drugs and insecticides used to control vector-borne diseases (Hemingway and Ranson 2000).”