Journal
PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY-EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 387-398Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1191/0309133304pp417ra
Keywords
climate and health; coccidioidomycosis; dengue; hantavirus; infectious disease; landscape epidemiology; plague; Southwest USA
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As in many parts of the world, climate variability has a strong impact on infectious diseases within the southwestern USA. Moisture and temperature conditions can either indirectly impact disease by providing an environment conducive to the growth of an animal host or reservoir, or directly through the survival and dispersal of an infectious agent. It is also expected that climate change will affect the number of cases and/or the spatial distribution of infectious diseases. Before the effects of climate change on diseases can be determined, an understanding of the basic relationship between incidence and climate variability should be established. A review of climate impacts on four infectious diseases ( hantavirus, plague, dengue and coccidioidomycosis) currently found in southwestern USA ( or potentially found in the southwest in the case of dengue) is followed by suggested future research to further understand the relationship between climate variability/change and disease.
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