氣候變遷與傳染疾病的關聯

這幾天讀一篇2010年的文章
Supplementary reading—Global Climate Change and Infectious Diseases/ NEJM

• 雖然是七年前的文章，但是討論的氣候變遷，至今仍是世界最重大的議題之一。
• 這篇文章的關注是氣候變遷與疾病，特別是昆蟲或是水相關的傳染疾病( vectorborne and waterborne infectious diseases )，這兩類型的傳染病的規模往往構成區域性或全球性的流行病(epidemic或pandemic)，不容小覷。
• 但是，似乎目前為止，此問題沒受到重視:

• The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen ended on December 18 without passage of a binding resolution for tackling global climate change. With the debate over U.S. health care reform raging, this event went largely unnoticed by the U.S. health care community. However, climate change will have enormous implications for human health, especially for the burden of vectorborne and waterborne infectious diseases.

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further readings:

http://www.who.int/globalchange/environment/en/chapter6.pdf
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0912931#t=article