Diana Erazo

Feb 7, 2024 | nature.com | Diana Erazo |Luke Grant |Giovanni Marini |William Wint |Wim Van Bortel |Nathan D. Grubaugh | +2 more

AbstractWest Nile virus (WNV) is an emerging mosquito-borne pathogen in Europe where it represents a new public health threat. While climate change has been cited as a potential driver of its spatial expansion on the continent, a formal evaluation of this causal relationship is lacking. Here, we investigate the extent to which WNV spatial expansion in Europe can be attributed to climate change while accounting for other direct human influences such as land-use and human population changes.