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Lecturer links climate and environmental change to shifting patterns of infectious disease
Summary
In a campus seminar, the speaker connected climate variability and environmental change to shifts in disease patterns, citing cholera, influenza, hantavirus and Lyme disease as examples where environmental drivers influence seasonality and outbreaks.
Speaker 3, Lecturer, argued that environmental changes, including warming and altered precipitation patterns, have direct effects on the timing and intensity of several infectious diseases. “In Bangladesh for the last thousand years, there have been spring peaks and summer, fall massive peaks of [cholera], and that fits exactly with the blooms of the plankton,” Speaker 3 said, linking cholera seasonality to plankton and zooplankton dynamics.
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