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cord-279008-gioqkeda	Rosenthal, Joshua	Climate Change and the Geographic Distribution of Infectious Diseases	2010-05-25		.txt	text/plain	4045	187	38	Although we are still at an early stage in our ability to make predictions for these extraordinarily complex phenomena, we are beginning to see some general patterns with regard to the important geophysical factors that govern biological basis for distribution change, the role of transport of disease, vectors and hosts, the biotic assemblages that influence establishment, and the socioeconomic conditions that constrain or enhance these dynamics. Underlying most predictions for climate change effects on parasite and pathogen distribution are the physiological factors that regulate survivorship, reproduction, and transmission, and their interaction with extrinsic environmental changes associated with climate: precipitation, humidity, air and water temperature, principally. Based largely on studies of vector and/or parasite development, warming and increases in humidity are predicted to open up new zones for malaria in Africa (Epstein et al., 1998; Martens, 1999) , parasitic nematodes in the Arctic (Kutz et al., 2005) , West Nile Virus (Reisen et al., 2006) , Lyme disease in North America (Ogden et al., 2008) , and Schistosomiasis in China (Zhou et al., 2008) .	./cache/cord-279008-gioqkeda.txt	./txt/cord-279008-gioqkeda.txt