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Friday 03 September 2010
Plague in Asia linked to climate change
Modellers correlate climate fluctuations with cases of the disease in Central Asia
Climatic variations had a ?significant? influence on the prevalence of plague in Kazakhstan and other regions of Central Asia in the early 20th century, and probably over the past 1500 years, according to the results of a modelling study1 published online in BMC Biology.
The authors, an international team of researchers led by Kyrre Kausrud of the University of Oslo, Norway, found an association between climatic fluctuations and plague in both people and animal hosts. Their findings suggest the dreaded disease may resurge as a result of climate change...
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References and links
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Kausrud KL, Begon M, Ari TB, Viljugrein H, Esper J, Buntgen U, et al. Modeling the epidemiological history of plague in Central Asia: Palaeoclimatic forcing on a disease system over the past millennium. BMC Biology 2010, 8: 112. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-112
2.
McMichael, AJ. Paleoclimate and bubonic plague: a forewarning of future risk? BMC Biology 2010, 8: 108. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-108
UK Health Protection Agency information about plague
World Health Organization information about climate change and human health
Friday 03 September 2010
Plague in Asia linked to climate change
Modellers correlate climate fluctuations with cases of the disease in Central Asia
Climatic variations had a ?significant? influence on the prevalence of plague in Kazakhstan and other regions of Central Asia in the early 20th century, and probably over the past 1500 years, according to the results of a modelling study1 published online in BMC Biology.
The authors, an international team of researchers led by Kyrre Kausrud of the University of Oslo, Norway, found an association between climatic fluctuations and plague in both people and animal hosts. Their findings suggest the dreaded disease may resurge as a result of climate change...
...
References and links
1.
Kausrud KL, Begon M, Ari TB, Viljugrein H, Esper J, Buntgen U, et al. Modeling the epidemiological history of plague in Central Asia: Palaeoclimatic forcing on a disease system over the past millennium. BMC Biology 2010, 8: 112. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-112
2.
McMichael, AJ. Paleoclimate and bubonic plague: a forewarning of future risk? BMC Biology 2010, 8: 108. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-108
UK Health Protection Agency information about plague
World Health Organization information about climate change and human health