Case 11 : Crypto Climate Creep: The Movement of Tropical Infectious Disease to the Arctic

• Main Authors: Sachal, Sukhmeet Singh, Deilgat, Michel, Speechley, Mark
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2019
• Subjects: Climate change; Cryptosporidium; One Health Model; systems thinking; zoonotic infectious diseases; Arctic Region; Indigenous peoples; Arctic; Canada; Inuvik; Inuvik Region; Nunavik; bearded seal; Beluga; Beluga*; caribou; inuit
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/westernpublichealthcases/vol2019/iss2019/17; https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/westernpublichealthcases/article/1103/viewcontent/2019_Case_11_Crypto_Climate_Creep.pdf

Dr. Jacob Sanders was excited to attend the Inuvik Sunrise Festival and see friends, old and new. The evening was cut short due to the snowstorm, but the next morning, Jacob was very ill. Not knowing the cause, he assumed it was the food: Muktuk (beluga blubber), beaver, caribou, bearded seal, or bl...