PREZODE Webinar: Climate change, Super driver of zoonosis emergence

We can’t ignore that all climate change and zoonosis emergence are closely interlinked. Though there are some different time scale differences, as Climate change has bigger trends than animal infectious diseases, we can clearly see effects on livestock or forests. Zoonotic diseases are increased by international travel, leading to importation risks, with local transmission of infectious diseases, like Dengue in Europe. This is worsened by the fact that summers in places that are not hotspots now reach the same temperatures as in the tropics. These changes affect the distribution and behavior of wildlife, vectors like mosquitoes and ticks, and the pathogens they carry. As a result, regions previously unaffected by certain infectious diseases are now becoming vulnerable. In this webinar, we discuss how climate change acts not just as a background condition but as a super-driver that accelerates the emergence, spread, and severity of zoonotic diseases.

• Dr Jon Epstein, One Health Science.
• Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Conservation Through Public Health,
• Prof. Jan Semenza, environmental epidemiologist,
• and Dr Cyril Carminade, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

Moderation: Dr Elsa Léger, PREZODE.