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Climate change and influenza: A scoping review

Lane, Morgan A; Walawender, Maria; Carter, Jasmine; Brownsword, Erik A; Landay, Taylor; Gillespie, Thomas R; Fairley, Jessica K; ... Kraft, Colleen S; + view all (2022) Climate change and influenza: A scoping review. The Journal of Climate Change and Health , 5 , Article 100084. 10.1016/j.joclim.2021.100084. Green open access

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Abstract

Increasing evidence suggests that climate change affects the incidence of influenza, however, no reviews have evaluated this evidence across the entire transmission cycle of the disease. To bolster medical and public health systems preparedness for future annual and pandemic influenza, an understanding of how climate affects this transmission cycle is necessary. This scoping review searched the literature examining the effect of climate change on influenza until August 2020. Included articles covered research on climate effects across four thematic areas: 1) viral biology, 2) animal hosts, 3) human epidemiology, and the 4) impact of other planetary health factors on influenza (e.g., urbanization, water scarcity). The database search yielded 19,549 texts, of which 341 full texts were analyzed and 173 included. This review highlights the need to expand the geographical context and methods of research spanning the influenza transmission cycle to help determine which climatological factors affect influenza transmission and prepare for future influenza scenarios.

Type: Article
Title: Climate change and influenza: A scoping review
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.joclim.2021.100084
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2021.100084
Language: English
Additional information: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NCND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
Keywords: Influenza, Climate change, Review
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10212459
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