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Overall Question
How does Emerging Infectious Diseases relate to Global Climate Change?
Note to Teachers
This page should help you "see the BIG picture" between climate changes
and infectious diseases. This can be used as a guide for creating
lessons and designing activities. The focus questions (preceding the bold
headings) are to help you develop ideas and major concepts within each
of the sub topics.
Focus Question
How do humans contract infectious diseases?
| Bacteria | Viruses | Protozoa |
| Food-borne Diseases | Water-borne Diseases | Hosts i.e... insects & animals |
Focus Questions
What infectious diseases are related to Global Climate Change?
| Bubonic/Pneumonic plague (B/I) | Chagas (P/I) | Cholera (bacteria) |
| Dengue fever (V/M) | Ebola (V/R) | Encephalitis (V/M) |
| Filariasis (W) | Giardiasis (P) | Hantavirus (Ro/R) |
| Hookworm (W) | Influenza (V) | Intestinal Helminth (N/D) |
| Lassa Virus (Ro) | Leishmaniasis (P/Fy) | Lyme disease (B/T) |
| Malaria (P/M) | Marburg Virus (V) | Onchocerciasis(W/Fy) |
| Rabies (V/A) | Rickettsioses (Flea) | Rift Valley Fever (V/M) |
| Schistosomiasis (Fl) | Seal plague (A) | Yellow fever (V/Mo) |
Key
Methods of disease transmission
| B= bacteria | A= Animal |
| P= protozoa | R= Air |
| V= virus | Ro= Rodent |
| M= mosquito | N= nematode |
| I= insect | D= Digestion |
| T= tick | Fl= Fluke |
| W= worm | Fy= Fly |
Focus Question
Why does climate change?
| Greenhouse Gases | Deforestation |
| Reforestation | Human Effects ex. burning fossil fuels |
| Ozone Depletion |
Focus questions
What climate changes are prompting the emergence of many infectious
diseases?
| Temperature | Wind |
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| Sea Level Rise | Temperature Extremes |
| El Nino | Asian Monsoons |
| Wind Storms |
Focus Question
How is society reacting, both socially and economically, to climate
changes?
| Health Care | Education |
| Human Behavior ex. building dams & irrigation canals | Travel |
| Public Health Infrastructure |
Focus Question
How might Emerging Infectious Diseases be controlled and/or prevented?
| Modeling Techniques ie. general circulation model | Epidemiological Research |
| Surveillance | Ecosystem monitoring |
| Weather Forecasting | Coastal Policies |
| Population Control | Water Purification |
| Public Health Care Treatment ie.Vaccinations | Changes in Human Behavior |
Focus Question
Why aren't drugs and pesticides effective in the control of infectious
disease?
| Antibiotic Resistance | Pesticide Resistance |
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