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Uganda’s Anthrax Outbreak: Climate and Health Intersect

December 11, 2023September 3, 2024 Kelsey Toups

Image courtesy of neiljs; CC-BY 2.0 DEED. As of December 5th, 17 people in the Kyotera district of Uganda have died of what has now

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A Deadly Trifecta: Dengue Fever, Climate Crisis, and Fragile Healthcare Systems in Bangladesh

October 23, 2023September 6, 2024 Jacquelin Sauer

Image courtesy of Claudio Napoli; CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bangladesh is currently suffering from it’s deadliest outbreak of dengue fever ever recorded.1 Between January and October 8,

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Warmer Waters and Terrifying Consequences: The Climate Crisis and Vibrio Vulnificus in the East Coast

August 25, 2023September 6, 2024 Jacquelin Sauer

Image courtesy of Michael Levine-Clark; CC-BY-NC-ND. Vibrio vulnificus (V. vulnificus), a rare flesh-eating bacteria that belongs to the same family as the bacteria that causes

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New “Nature” Study Models the Role of Climate Change in Pathogen Transmission

June 17, 2022September 17, 2024 Makayla Swaciak

Image Courtesy of Victoria Reay; CC-BY Over 75% of all emerging pathogens that infect humans are zoonotic in origin, meaning that they are the result

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Brain-Eating Amoeba Returns to the South

July 20, 2012January 25, 2023 Katharina Schwan

The by now infamous brain-eating amoeba caused its first U.S. fatality of 2012 in an 8-year-old South Carolina boy. Blake Driggers from Sumter County was

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Summer Heat Fuels Tick Illnesses

June 26, 2012January 25, 2023 Katharina Schwan

  On June 20 we celebrated the summer solstice, marking the beginning of summer and the favorite season of both outdoor enthusiasts and, unfortunately, ticks.

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Climate Change and Infectious Disease

November 28, 2011January 25, 2023 Katharina Schwan

Durban, South Africa will host the most recent round of UN climate change discussions from November 28 to December 6. The United Nations Framework Convention

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