Climate change brings the specter of new infectious diseases.

Climate change will bring major changes to the epidemiology of infectious diseases through changes in microbial and vector geographic range Human defenses against microbial diseases rely on advanced immunity that includes innate and adaptive arms and endothermy, which creates a thermal restriction zone for many microbes Given that microbes can adapt to higher temperatures, there is concern that global warming will select for microbes with higher heat tolerance that can defeat our endothermy defenses and bring new infectious disease Here, Casadevall discusses the strong possibility that new, previously unknown infectious diseases will emerge from warmer climates as microbes adapt to higher global temperatures that can defeat our endothermy thermal barrier

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Journal of Clinical Investigation

• Publication date

  2020-01-06

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1172/JCI135003PMID 31904588PMCID PMC6994111
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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