Emerging arboviruses in the urbanized Amazon rainforest

Rachel Lowe; Sophie Lee; Raquel Martins Lana; Cláudia Torres Codeço; Marcia C Castro; Mercedes Pascual

doi:10.1136/bmj.m4385

Emerging arboviruses in the urbanized Amazon rainforest

BMJ. 2020 Nov 13:371:m4385. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m4385.

Authors

Rachel Lowe^{1

2

3}, Sophie Lee^{1

2}, Raquel Martins Lana⁴, Cláudia Torres Codeço⁴, Marcia C Castro⁵, Mercedes Pascual⁶

Affiliations

¹ Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
² Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Programa de Computação Científica, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁵ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA pascualmm@uchicago.edu.

Abstract

Degradation of rainforest, extreme weather events, and climate change affect the spread of mosquito borne diseases like dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, write Rachel Lowe and colleagues. Urgent action is needed

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Brazil
Capacity Building
Chikungunya Fever / epidemiology
Chikungunya Fever / transmission
Climate Change*
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / transmission*
Conservation of Natural Resources
Dengue / epidemiology
Dengue / transmission
Humans
Mosquito Vectors
Population Surveillance*
Public Health
Rain
Rainforest*
Spatio-Temporal Analysis
Temperature
Urbanization*
Water Supply
Zika Virus Infection / epidemiology
Zika Virus Infection / transmission