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Lecturer links climate and environmental change to shifts in infectious diseases
Summary
The seminar connected climate variability, habitat change and human activity to altered seasonality and spread of diseases including cholera, influenza, hantavirus and Lyme disease, and noted rising strain diversity in some pathogens.
A university lecturer told the President's Lecture Series that climate and environmental changes are reshaping the seasonality and geographic range of several infectious diseases.
The claim matters because it links environmental drivers — sea surface temperature, rainfall variability and habitat fragmentation — to disease dynamics and public health risk.
The lecturer used cholera as a primary example,…
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