Associating land cover changes with patterns of incidences of climate-sensitive infections: an example on tick-borne diseases in the Nordic area

• Main Authors: Leibovici, D.G., Bylund, H., Björkman, C., Tokarevich, N., Thierfelder, T., Evengård, B., Quegan, S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021
• Subjects: Bor; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/179596/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/179596/1/ijerph-18-10963.pdf

Some of the climate-sensitive infections (CSIs) affecting humans are zoonotic vector-borne diseases, such as Lyme borreliosis (BOR) and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), mostly linked to various species of ticks as vectors. Due to climate change, the geographical distribution of tick species, their hos...