Global climate change and infectious diseases

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-19

  Shuman, E K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholera; Climate change; Dengue; Diarrhea; Disease vectors; Ecology; Greenhouse effect; Infectious disease medicine; Malaria; West Nile fever

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; METHANE; NITROUS OXIDE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DEFORESTATION; DENGUE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEALTH HAZARD; INFECTION CONTROL; MALARIA; REVIEW; WATER BORNE DISEASE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER CYCLE; WEST NILE FEVER;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE VECTORS; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS;

EID: 79952478506     PISSN: 20086520     EISSN: 20086814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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