Climate change could drive more Zika and dengue epidemics and longer transmission seasons in Brazil, with a new model predicting Zika's R0 increasing up to 2.7

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Climate change could drive more Zika and dengue epidemics and longer transmission seasons in Brazil, with a new model predicting Zika's R0 increasing up to 2.7.

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Article URL: http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0010839

Article Title: Long-term projections of the impacts of warming temperatures on Zika and dengue risk in four Brazilian cities using a temperature-dependent basic reproduction number

Author Countries: USA

Funding: This work was supported in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (www.nih.gov; grant number R01AI132372). HVW and JNSE received funding from this source. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

JOURNAL

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

DOI

10.1371/journal.pntd.0010839 

ARTICLE TITLE

Long-term projections of the impacts of warming temperatures on Zika and dengue risk in four Brazilian cities using a temperature-dependent basic reproduction number

ARTICLE PUBLICATION DATE

27-Apr-2023