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. 2020 Oct 26:371:m3081.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.m3081.

Strengthening the global response to climate change and infectious disease threats

Jeremy Hess  1 , Laura-Lee G Boodram  2 , Shlomit Paz  3 , Anna M Stewart Ibarra  4 , Judith N Wasserheit  5 , Rachel Lowe  6   7
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Strengthening the global response to climate change and infectious disease threats

Jeremy Hess et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Climate change is emerging as an important driver of disease incidence, and a wait and see approach invites unnecessary risk, write Jeremy Hess and colleagues. Governments, funders, researchers, and practitioners must act now

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Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on competing interests and declare the following: none.

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