Since the dawn of medical science, people have recognized connections between a change in the weather and the appearance of epidemic disease. With today's techn

also occurs. New outbreaks of yellow fever have occurred in Colombia and Trinidad and new outbreaks of rift valley fever have occurred in Egypt. Chapter 6, Aren

In the past half century, deadly disease outbreaks caused by novel viruses of animal origin - Nipah virus in Malaysia, Hendra virus in Australia, Hantavirus in

As global climate change proliferates, so too do the health risks associated with the changing world around us. Called for in the President’s Climate Action P

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