You cannot fall into the trap of just blaming climate change for the emergence, reemergence and spread of infectious diseases, Dr. Duane Gubler told me, because there are a host of other factors at play.
Dr. Peter J. Hotez also emphasized this point when I interviewed him for our cover story, which begins on page 12. Overcrowding, poverty, urbanization, globalization, geography and weather are just a few of the issues that influence the spread of organisms.
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