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. 2009 Nov 11:2.
doi: 10.3402/gha.v2i0.2106.

Climate change influences infectious diseases both in the Arctic and the tropics: joining the dots

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Climate change influences infectious diseases both in the Arctic and the tropics: joining the dots

Birgitta Evengård et al. Glob Health Action. .
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The Arctic, looking down to the North Pole.
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The world, showing the tropics (blue zone) and countries containing INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance sites (yellow). Source: www.indepth-network.org Note: There is one INDEPTH site Latin America, in Nicaragua (not shown on the map).
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Fig. 3.
Time trend for malaria in the Kenyan highlands. Source: Ref. .

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