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Be careful for neglected
diseases
Ji-Huan He
Modern
Textile Institute, Donghua University, 1882 Yan'an Xilu
Road, Shanghai 200051, China. E-mail:
jhhe@dhu.edu.cn.
Accepted
23 July, 2009 |
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Neglected diseases boost (Nature, 457: 772, 2009), which will
become greater threat to human health especially in tropical
regions. In my opinion, it is the inherent result of climate
warming. An allometrical scaling is suggested to support my
opinion, this can also explain why swine flu does not affect
pigs very much, but human beings fatally.
Key
words:
Global climate change, disease, temperature, allometrical
scaling, swine flu, HIV, H1N1, virus. |
