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. 2018 Apr:234:43-47.
doi: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2017.12.021. Epub 2018 Jan 1.

Climate change and multiple emerging infectious diseases

C Heffernan  1
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Climate change and multiple emerging infectious diseases

C Heffernan. Vet J. 2018 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: Climate change; Disease cascades; Land use change; Spillover; Urbanisation.

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The infectious disease climate change cascade. Climate change has a range of primary impacts on host/pathogen interactions and wider agricultural production, with secondary and tertiary impacts on livelihoods and behaviour, leading to demographic shifts, which equally have an impact on host/pathogen interactions.
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