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Climate Change, Environmental Factors and Dengue in Africa
PUBLISHED September 28, 2022 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.54985/peeref.2209p4139601)
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Authors
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Christine Giesen1 , Zaida Herrador Ortiz2 , Diana Gómez Barroso2
- Infanta Sofía University Hospital
- National Epidemiology Centre, Carlos III Institute of Health, Spain
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Conference / event
- International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance, November 2021 (Virtual)
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Poster summary
- PURPOSE The impact of climate change on the distribution of dengue rises controversy and debate; despite the existence of evidence about the effect of changes in certain environmental variables have on its epidemiology. MATERIAL & METHODS We performed a systematic review. The study area was Africa. The disease under study was dengue and its vector Aedes. Standard terms for climate change and/or environmental factors were included in the search. The review protocol was registered in PROSPERO. RESULTS 19 studies met the inclusion criteria. 47% concluded that climate change is affecting the prevalence and/or incidence of dengue, compared to 42% that did not find such a relationship. According to 37%, the prevalence of dengue will increase in the coming decades, while it will decrease according to 11%. 63% showed an increase in the spread of dengue. Temperature and rainfall were the most frequently analyzed environmental factors.
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Keywords
- Dengue, Climate change, Africa
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Research areas
- Medicine
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- Competing interests
- No competing interests were disclosed.
- Data availability statement
- The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
- Creative Commons license
- Copyright © 2022 Giesen et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Giesen, C., Herrador Ortiz, Z., Gómez Barroso, D. Climate Change, Environmental Factors and Dengue in Africa [not peer reviewed]. Peeref 2022 (poster).
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