{"id":595,"date":"2014-08-18T22:29:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T02:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=595"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:13:31","slug":"predicting-disease-outbreaks-based-on-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/08\/predicting-disease-outbreaks-based-on-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting disease outbreaks based on weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>OXY<\/em> recently published an article on prediction of disease outbreaks in humans based on weather, which you can read by clicking <a title=\"Disease outbreaks and weather\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ozy.com\/fast-forward\/reading-the-disease-forecast-in-the-weather-report\/31489.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. \u00a0In the story, the epidemiologists point out the advantage of using longer-range weather and climate predictions to identify potential risks of the spread of dangerous diseases like Ebola and other infectious diseases. \u00a0Some human and animal diseases are known to be affected by local weather patterns. \u00a0For example, equine encephalitis is known to develop and spread most quickly when a drought period which concentrates the insect vectors is followed by a wet period which disperses them widely. \u00a0NASA researchers have also linked Ebola outbreaks to a drought followed by a heavy wet period. \u00a0In the future, scientists may be more able to identify potential disease outbreaks in advance based on climate predictions. \u00a0That would help doctors plan for appropriate care before the onset of the epidemic. \u00a0This may become even more important in the future when a warmer climate may expand the range of many disease-carrying insects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXY recently published an article on prediction of disease outbreaks in humans based on weather, which you can read by clicking here. \u00a0In the story, the epidemiologists point out the advantage of using longer-range weather and climate predictions to identify potential risks of the spread of dangerous diseases like Ebola and other infectious diseases. \u00a0Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22719,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/22719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}