Does climate change increase disease? | The Royal Society

We are living in an era of resurgent infectious disease crises, from COVID-19 and Ebola to dengue fever and Zika. Most of these so-called emerging infections share a key feature in common: they originate in wildlife or are transmitted by invertebrates such as mosquitoes and ticks.

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How can studying these ecological dimensions of disease help us to better predict and respond to epidemics? And how is climate change reshaping the global landscape of infectious disease?
Dr Rory Gibb, an ecologist, epidemiologist and Royal Society University Research Fellow at University College London, investigates how environmental change impacts the health of people and ecosystems. In this talk, he will explain why we cannot understand epidemics in the 21st century without also understanding climate change and its impacts on biodiversity.

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