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Published online 9 April 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.361
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Disease in a warming climate
Fears of a global rise in infectious conditions may be unfounded.
Climate change takes the blame for many dim future prospects: rising sea levels, more frequent droughts and disappearing glaciers, to name just a few. But perhaps the warming trend should be absolved of responsibility for a predicted bump in the global burden of infectious disease.
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