Early Warning Impact of Temperature and Rainfall Anomalies onto West Nile Virus Human Cases
West Nile Virus (WNV) is transmitted among amplifying hosts and transferred through the bites of mosquitoes; humans and other mammals may become infected. The overwintering of infected mosquitoes is important for next season’s circulation of the virus. In this study, we combined the available climat...
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| author | Anastasia Angelou Sandra Gewehr Spiros Mourelatos Ioannis Kioutsioukis |
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| description | West Nile Virus (WNV) is transmitted among amplifying hosts and transferred through the bites of mosquitoes; humans and other mammals may become infected. The overwintering of infected mosquitoes is important for next season’s circulation of the virus. In this study, we combined the available climatic and entomological data at the municipality level to identify the impact of the wintertime climatic anomalies on the survival ability of diapausing mosquitoes in Central Macedonia, a region with great epidemiological interest in Greece. The analysis indicated a strong dependence of the mosquito abundances with spring temperature and winter precipitation, depending on the land use type and the geomorphology of the municipalities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-974c8b01fcf44b2da922d52d9c432def2024-03-27T13:37:20ZengMDPI AGEnvironmental Sciences Proceedings2673-49312023-08-012619310.3390/environsciproc2023026093Early Warning Impact of Temperature and Rainfall Anomalies onto West Nile Virus Human CasesAnastasia Angelou0Sandra Gewehr1Spiros Mourelatos2Ioannis Kioutsioukis3Department of Physics, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, GreeceEcodevelopment S.A., 57010 Filyro, GreeceEcodevelopment S.A., 57010 Filyro, GreeceDepartment of Physics, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, GreeceWest Nile Virus (WNV) is transmitted among amplifying hosts and transferred through the bites of mosquitoes; humans and other mammals may become infected. The overwintering of infected mosquitoes is important for next season’s circulation of the virus. In this study, we combined the available climatic and entomological data at the municipality level to identify the impact of the wintertime climatic anomalies on the survival ability of diapausing mosquitoes in Central Macedonia, a region with great epidemiological interest in Greece. The analysis indicated a strong dependence of the mosquito abundances with spring temperature and winter precipitation, depending on the land use type and the geomorphology of the municipalities.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4931/26/1/93climatic anomaliesWest Nile Fever human casesvectorsdiapausingclimate change impactdata analysis |
| spellingShingle | Anastasia Angelou Sandra Gewehr Spiros Mourelatos Ioannis Kioutsioukis Early Warning Impact of Temperature and Rainfall Anomalies onto West Nile Virus Human Cases Environmental Sciences Proceedings climatic anomalies West Nile Fever human cases vectors diapausing climate change impact data analysis |
| title | Early Warning Impact of Temperature and Rainfall Anomalies onto West Nile Virus Human Cases |
| title_full | Early Warning Impact of Temperature and Rainfall Anomalies onto West Nile Virus Human Cases |
| title_fullStr | Early Warning Impact of Temperature and Rainfall Anomalies onto West Nile Virus Human Cases |
| title_full_unstemmed | Early Warning Impact of Temperature and Rainfall Anomalies onto West Nile Virus Human Cases |
| title_short | Early Warning Impact of Temperature and Rainfall Anomalies onto West Nile Virus Human Cases |
| title_sort | early warning impact of temperature and rainfall anomalies onto west nile virus human cases |
| topic | climatic anomalies West Nile Fever human cases vectors diapausing climate change impact data analysis |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4931/26/1/93 |
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