Tropical cyclones in the U.S. over the past two decades have been linked to surges of several waterborne diseases—and it's only going to get worse.
this month in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, say they’re the first to take a look at the effect of tropical storms on specific infections in the U.S. over multiple storm seasons.
To do this, they analyzed data from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System as well as storm data on tropical cyclones that made landfall between 1996 to 2018. They looked at six different waterborne infections in the states where at least one storm had occurred; they also focused on the months of June to November, the typical storm season.All in all, the authors found a clear link between storms and three of these infectious diseases: Legionnaires’ disease,, and cryptosporidiosis.
here were important differences in how these storms appeared to affect the risk of catching these germs.cases surged in the first week after a storm, for instance, but returned to their normal rate by week three, while added cases of Legionnaires’ disease actually peaked in week three. “In summary, we found that tropical cyclones represent a risk to public health in the United States, although findings for individual pathogens varied,” the authors wrote.plenty of reasons to believe that the situation has and will only get worse from here. Climate change is
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