Rising Temperatures and Climate Change Worsen Spread of Vector-Borne Diseases - Indian Flash

Rising Temperatures and Climate Change Worsen Spread of Vector-Borne Diseases

Rising Temperatures and Climate Change Worsen Spread of Vector-Borne Diseases - Indian Flash

Rising Temperatures and Climate Change Worsen Spread of Vector-Borne Diseases

Uni Bern: PhD position in modeling future risks associated with vector-borne diseases in humans and animals in Switzerland with regards to climate change (80-100%)

The Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) of Bern performs research in a range of disciplines relevant to public health (www.ispm.unibe.ch). Groups cut across divisions, facilitating an interdisciplinary approach to research in the fields of clinical epidemiology, social and behavioral health, biostatistics, and international and environmental health. The ISPM is highly reputed for its expertise in health effects of environmental exposures, the spread of infectious disease, and the health of vulnerable groups including children and the elderly.

Eurosurveillance | Arthropod-borne diseases among travellers arriving in Europe from Africa, 2015 to 2019

Background Travellers are generally considered good sentinels for infectious disease surveillance. Aim To investigate whether health data from travellers arriving from Africa to Europe could provide evidence to support surveillance systems in Africa. Methods We examined disease occurrence and estimated risk of infection among travellers arriving from Africa to Europe from 2015 to 2019 using surveillance data of arthropod-borne disease cases collected through The European Surveillance System (TESSy) and flight passenger volumes from the International Air Transport Association. Results Malaria was the most common arthropod-borne disease reported among travellers from Africa, with 34,235 cases. The malaria travellers’ infection rate (TIR) was 28.8 cases per 100,000 travellers, which is 36 and 144 times higher than the TIR for dengue and chikungunya, respectively. The malaria TIR was highest among travellers arriving from Central and Western Africa. There were 956 and 161 diagnosed imported cases of dengue and chikungunya, respectively. The highest TIR was among travellers arriving from Central, Eastern and Western Africa for dengue and from Central Africa for chikungunya in this period. Limited numbers of cases of Zika virus disease, West Nile virus infection, Rift Valley fever and yellow fever were reported. Conclusions Despite some limitations, travellers’ health data can efficiently complement local surveillance data in Africa, particularly when the country or region has a sub-optimal surveillance system. The sharing of anonymised traveller health data between regions/continents should be encouraged.

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Eurosurveillance | Volume 27, Issue 44

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Eurosurveillance | Rapid increase in neuroinvasive West Nile virus infections in humans, Italy, July 2022

As in 2018, when a large West Nile virus (WNV) epidemic occurred, the 2022 vector season in Italy was marked by an early onset of WNV circulation in mosquitoes and birds. Human infections were limited until early July, when we observed a rapid increase in the number of cases. We describe the epidemiology of human infections and animal and vector surveillance for WNV and compare the more consolidated data of June and July 2022 with the same period in 2018.