Research gaps in understanding how climate change will affect arboviral diseases.

Baylis, Matthew ORCID: 0000-0003-0335-187X (2013) Research gaps in understanding how climate change will affect arboviral diseases. Animal health research reviews, 14 (2). pp. 143-146.

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Abstract

Climate change is widely expected to cause the emergence and spread of vector-borne diseases, and predictive models are needed so that we can be prepared. We developed a climate-sensitive, predictive, model that describes the risk of bluetongue, an arboviral disease of ruminants, which has emerged dramatically in Europe. Developing the predictive bluetongue model led to the identification of numerous gaps in both the understanding and the availability of data. These mostly pertain to the vectors and their interaction with hosts. Closing these gaps will allow better models, with more precise predictions, to be produced. These research gaps apply to many other arboviral diseases as well. As a consequence, there needs to be an increase in research on the vectors that transmit arboviral diseases. Priorities are the training of a new generation of taxonomists, studies on the field biology of potential vectors, and increased coordination of vector surveillance and recording between countries facing similar threats.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Animals, Ruminants, Sheep, Bluetongue, Europe, Climate Change
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	05 May 2016 09:54
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 07:37
DOI:	10.1017/s1466252313000145
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3001077