Establishment of Aedes aegypti (L.) in mountainous regions in Mexico: Increasing number of population at risk of mosquito-borne disease and future climate conditions

Data documenting the potential distribution of Aedes aegypti in the center of Veracruz, Mexico

“…This maps are presented and discussed in Equihua et al [1]. The map included (Map 1) is the spatial distribution of the records used to generate Aedes aegypti potential distribution models (shared in shapefile format).…”

“…Sandoval-Ruiz, F.S. Mendoza-Palmero, 2016) [1]. This article provides presence records in shapefile format used to generate maps of potential distribution of Aedes aegypti with different climate change scenarios as well as each of the maps obtained in raster format.…”

Climate change accelerates local disease extinction rates in a long‐term wild host–pathogen association

“…The potential for climate change to favour the dynamics of existing, new and emerging diseases thereby threatening global food security (Fisher et al, 2012), human (Altizer, Ostfeld, Johnson, Kutz, & Harvell, 2013;Equihua et al, 2017) and animal (Kalinda, Chimbari, & Mukaratirwa, 2017) health and biodiversity (Clare et al, 2016) has also attracted much attention (Fisher et al, 2012;Kaczmarek et al, 2016). With regard to fungal plant pathogens, concern has focused on the potential for climate change to increasingly favour agricultural pathogens within existing regions of host-pathogen associations (Chakraborty & Newton, 2011;Kaczmarek et al, 2016;Newbery, Qi, & Fitt, 2016) or to promote expansion of the geographic range of such pathogens (Bebber, Ramotowski, & Gurr, 2013;Fisher et al, 2012) into areas from which they are currently excluded by temperature and precipitation regimes.…”

Global expansion and redistribution of Aedes-borne virus transmission risk with climate change

“…The dynamics of mosquito-borne illnesses are climate-driven, and current work suggests that climate change will dramatically increase the potential for expansion and intensification of Aedes-borne virus transmission within the next century. Modeling studies have anticipated climate-driven emergence of dengue and chikungunya at higher latitudes [50,51] and higher elevations [52,53], and predicted the potential ongoing global expansion of Zika [10,44]. The majority of research at global scales [10,21,54] and in North America and Europe [55] has suggested that climate change is likely to increase the global burden of dengue and chikungunya, and therefore, that mitigation is likely to benefit global health [22,56].…”

“…Many models exist to address this pressing topic, each with different approaches to control for data limitations, confounding processes, climate and disease model uncertainty, different concepts of population at risk, and different preferences towards experimental, mechanistic, or phenomenological approaches e.g. [4,8,10,16,24,33,34,41,44,45,53,61,67,67,[76][77][78]. While climate change poses perhaps the most serious threat to global health security, the relationship between climate change and burdens of Aedes-borne diseases is unlikely to be straightforward, and no single model will accurately predict the complex process of a global regime shift in Aedes-borne viral transmission.…”