Question

In 150-200 words, provide a response to the following question: How could global climate change affect vector-borne or zoonotic diseases in the U.S.? You must discuss specific examples in your response

Answer 1

Vector borne zoonotic diseases are affected by climatic changes on four principles like density of population, geographic location ,prevalence of infection by zoonotic pathogens and finally the individual host and vector.Extreme weather may be cold or hot can affect the living organism mostly directly and sometimes indirectly. Lyme disease, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome ,malaria are widely spread diseases in US.

The important determinants in the vector borne disease transmission are vector survival and reproduction, biting rate,incubation rate

The predictive model clearly states the effects of vector borne disease with the following models like statistical model,process based model and land scaled based model.Mosquitoes form a wide spread vector borne infection due to urbanization, deforestation, leading to the climatic changes and new zoonotic diseases.