Ciguatera fish poisoning and climate change: Analysis of national poison center data in the United States, 2001-2011

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 580-586

  Gingold, Daniel B ^a   Strickland, Matthew J ^a   Hess, Jeremy J ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILD; CIGUATERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FISHING; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOXIC FISH; WEATHER; YOUNG ADULT; CARIBBEAN; CIGUATERA POISONING; INCIDENCE; MICROBIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

SEA WATER;

CARIBBEAN REGION; CIGUATERA POISONING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYCLONIC STORMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901756047     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307196     Document Type: Article

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