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Multisectoral Perspectives on Global Warming and Vector-borne Diseases: a Focus on Southern Europe
Oluwafemi A Adepoju1, Olubunmi A Afinowi2, Abdullah M Tauheed3
1Department of Biochemistry, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 2222 Kaduna State Nigeria.
Purpose Of Review:
The climate change (CC) or global warming (GW) modifies environment that favors vectors' abundance, growth, and reproduction, and consequently, the rate of development of pathogens within the vectors. This review highlights the threats of GW-induced vector-borne diseases (VBDs) in Southern Europe (SE) and the need for mitigation efforts to prevent potential global health catastrophe.
Recent Findings:
Reports showed astronomical surges in the incidences of CC-induced VBDs in the SE. The recently (2022) reported first cases of African swine fever in Northern Italy and West Nile fever in SE are linked to the CC-modified environmental conditions that support vectors and pathogens' growth and development, and disease transmission.
Summary:
VBDs endemic to the tropics are increasingly becoming a major health challenge in the SE, a temperate region, due to the favorable environmental conditions caused by CC/GW that support vectors and pathogens' biology in the previously non-endemic temperate regions.
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