What Does Climate Change Have to Do with Cholera?

摘要

When Americans worry about public health, cholera is rarely a part of the conversation. In striking contrast to this outlook, however, the recent annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) featured much discussion of the disease. From geophysicists to hydrologists to environmental statisticians, researchers steeped in the data of climate change see the potential for cholera to increase as sea levels and water temperatures rise.