Pathogenic landscapes: Interactions between land, people, disease vectors, and their animal hosts
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- 1 January 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in International Journal of Health Geographics
- Vol. 9 (1), 54
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-072x-9-54
Abstract
Landscape attributes influence spatial variations in disease risk or incidence. We present a review of the key findings from eight case studies that we conducted in Europe and West Africa on the impact of land changes on emerging or re-emerging vector-borne diseases and/or zoonoses. The case studies concern West Nile virus transmission in Senegal, tick-borne encephalitis incidence in Latvia, sandfly abundance in the French Pyrenees, Rift Valley Fever in the Ferlo (Senegal), West Nile Fever and the risk of malaria re-emergence in the Camargue, and rodent-borne Puumala hantavirus and Lyme borreliosis in Belgium.Keywords
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