Climate change: how it impacts the emergence, transmission, resistance and consequences of viral infections in animals and plants

Dash, Shiba Prasad; Dipankar, Pankaj; Burange, P. S.; Rouse, Barry T.; Sarangi, Pranita P.

doi:10.1080/1040841x.2021.1879006

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“…One report indicated that the distribution of ACE2 receptors could be affected by physiological temperature by way of differential stimulation by heat shock proteins (HSP72), that are upregulated in human cells when the temperature exceeds the normal range ( 9 , 112 ). Another factor by which climate change could influence the efficacy of immunity to SARS-CoV-2 is exposure to other comorbidities ( 7 ). A prime candidate to consider is diabetes, a well-known susceptibility factor for severe COVID-19 infection ( 11 , 113 ).…”

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“…Conceivably, the global catastrophe caused by COVID-19 may become a past bad memory. However, given the circumstances of our world with its changing climate and its anthropocentric stresses such as deforestation, industrialization, and pollution we can anticipate that new pandemics of coronaviruses and other infections will remain on the menu (Figure 1) (6)(7)(8). Supporting this hypothesis, many lines of evidence indicate that climatic and weather changes due to natural (e.g., forest fires, volcanoes, and solar radiations, increased cyclones and floods) and modern civilization associated reasons as described above have impacted human health, changing susceptibility to infections, the distribution of reservoirs, carriers, and their exposure to a wider range of host population (7).…”

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“…However, given the circumstances of our world with its changing climate and its anthropocentric stresses such as deforestation, industrialization, and pollution we can anticipate that new pandemics of coronaviruses and other infections will remain on the menu (Figure 1) (6)(7)(8). Supporting this hypothesis, many lines of evidence indicate that climatic and weather changes due to natural (e.g., forest fires, volcanoes, and solar radiations, increased cyclones and floods) and modern civilization associated reasons as described above have impacted human health, changing susceptibility to infections, the distribution of reservoirs, carriers, and their exposure to a wider range of host population (7). With respect to the host, reports showed that the current changes in environmental factors have increased the incidences of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes in humans and have affected several aspects of host immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, such as expression levels of the viral ACE-2 receptor (9)(10)(11).…”

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Did Climate Change Influence the Emergence, Transmission, and Expression of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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The human race has survived many epidemics and pandemics that have emerged and reemerged throughout history. The novel coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 is the latest pandemic and this has caused major health and socioeconomic problems in almost all communities of the world. The origin of the virus is still in dispute but most likely, the virus emerged from the bats and also may involve an intermediate host before affecting humans. Several other factors also may have affected the emergence and outcome of the infection but in this review, we make a case for a possible role of climate change. The rise in industrialization-related human activities has created a marked imbalance in the homeostasis of environmental factors such as temperature and other weather and these might even have imposed conditions for the emergence of future coronavirus cycles. An attempt is made in this review to explore the effect of ongoing climate changes and discuss if these changes had a role in facilitating the emergence, transmission, and even the expression of the COVID-19 pandemic. We surmise that pandemics will be more frequent in the future and more severely impactful unless climate changes are mitigated.

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“…The study of such migrations is of great scientific and practical interest. The importance of the problem is also due to the fact that climate change and anthropogenic impact have changed traditional, known ways of animal migration, which can lead and already leads to the introduction of viral pathogens, previously absent in these places [ 11 ].…”

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Wild Animal Migration As a Potential Threat of Introduction of New Viruses into Russia

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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has shown how serious the problem of re-emerging zoonotic infections is for our existence. Migrations of animals, which are natural reservoirs of a particular virus, play a colossal role in the spread of pathogens to new territories. Examples are the migrations of both land animals (carnivores, rodents, and ungulates) and many marine mammals (pinnipeds and cetaceans). Yet the most interesting from the point of view of the speed and range of the spread of viral infections are migrations associated with flights. In nature, these can be migrations of insects, bats, and, of course, birds. Unfortunately, there are very few studies on the migration of these animals in Russia. Considering the problems related to climate change and other environmental factors, it is important to obtain up-to-date data on the changing animal migration routes and, as a consequence, to develop domestic equipment, particularly transmitters, to fix them.

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“…But by destroying the environment and melting glaciers, humans destroyed the invasive viruses and brought it into his life (Kumar et al, 2021 andEpstein &Mills, 2005). Some scholars highlighted the risks associated with viruses hidden in permafrost, and the risks arising out of ecological destruction (Dash et al, 2021).…”

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The Post-Covid-19 Era Requires Maximum Urban Resilience

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2021

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This paper reviews the low-resilience problem in many cities, poor designs of cities to cope with disasters, and the need for tolerance of urban constructions. It explores answers concerning the question of how shall we build cities resiliently? The method of this applied research is a multiphase process that considers all physical and socioeconomic elements of a city. It introduces six indicator groups of urban management (M), economy (E), built environments (U), Infrastructures (I), natural environments (N), and health protection (H). The groups include 55 indicators as variables in the mathematical calculations in this paper. This paper builds a mathematical model to maximize the profitability of resilient buildings by optimizing investments in the required projects. The projects will upgrade the firmness and tolerance of cities against nature-based and human-made dangers and risks. There is a linear programming in 55 variables to select optimal solutions from fifty-five factorial alternatives. Then, the programming will develop into non-linear programming. The unique innovation of this paper is its linear programming interpretation by non-linear to give optimal solutions for the problem. Applying the Lagrange function in the Kuhn-Tucker conditions proves the accuracy of the hypothesis that post-COVID urbanization requires maximum resilience. Only in this way, the urban economies will be free of risks. Outcomes in this paper will assist in the pre-planning, design, and building of built environments everywhere resilient and sustainable.

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Climate change: how it impacts the emergence, transmission, resistance and consequences of viral infections in animals and plants

Cited by 22 publications

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Did Climate Change Influence the Emergence, Transmission, and Expression of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Did Climate Change Influence the Emergence, Transmission, and Expression of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Wild Animal Migration As a Potential Threat of Introduction of New Viruses into Russia

The Post-Covid-19 Era Requires Maximum Urban Resilience

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