Infectious diseases and climate change


NEWS: In its brochure "Mastering climate change in a healthy way", the Federal Ministry for the Environment provides information on health pests that can transmit infectious agents to humans. These primarily include rodents, mosquitoes and ticks. It also deals with species-specific and regional influences of climate change on their occurrence, distribution, population size, activity, possibilities of hibernation and the ability to transmit new infections. In addition to changes [...]