Global climate change and extreme weather events : understanding the contributions to infectious disease emergence: workshop summary

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Label

Global climate change and extreme weather events : understanding the contributions to infectious disease emergence: workshop summary

Title remainder

understanding the contributions to infectious disease emergence: workshop summary

Statement of responsibility

Rapporteurs: David A. Relman, Margaret A. Hamburg, Eileen R. Choffnes, and Alison Mack ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Contributor

• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Board on Global Health
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Forum on Microbial Threats
• Choffnes, Eileen R
• Hamburg, Margaret A
• Mack, Alison
• Relman, David A

Subject

• Climate
• Climate -- Congresses
• Climatic changes -- Health aspects
• Climatic changes -- Health aspects
• Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- epidemiology
• Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- epidemiology -- Congresses
• Communicable diseases -- Environmental aspects
• Communicable diseases -- Environmental aspects
• Congress
• Disease Outbreaks
• Disease Outbreaks -- Congresses
• Electronic books
• Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects
• Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects -- Congresses
• Epidemics -- Environmental aspects
• SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences | Geography
• SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences | Geology
• Weather
• Weather -- Congresses
• Weather -- Environmental aspects
• Weather -- Environmental aspects
• Weather -- Health aspects

Genre

• Congress
• Congresses
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Long before the germ theory of disease was described, late in the nineteenth century, humans knew that climatic conditions influence the appearance and spread of epidemic diseases. Ancient notions about the effects of weather and climate on disease remained embedded in our collective consciousness through expressions such as "cold" for rhinovirus infections, "malaria: derived from the Latin for bad air; and the common complaint of feeling "under the weather." Today, evidence is mounting that the earth's climate is changing at a faster rate than previously appreciated, leading researchers to view the longstanding relationships between climate and disease with new urgency and from a global perspective. On December 4 and 5, 2007, the Forum on Microbial Threats hosted a public workshop in Washington, DC to consider the possible infectious disease impacts of global climate change and extreme weather events on human, animal, and plant health, as well as their expected implications for global and national security

Cataloging source

EJB

Dewey number

551.6

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

• QC903
• QC981.8.C5

LC item number

G56 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

WB 700

NLM item number

G5625 2008