“…Vector-borne diseases are especially susceptible to temperature because their transmission rate and incidence are related to the biological traits of vectors, which are ectothermic arthropods (Lafferty, 2009). In this sense, climate change is expected to have an impact on multiple vector-borne diseases (Patz, 1996) such as Dengue fever (Struchiner et al, 2015), Chikungunya virus (Tjaden et al, 2017), Zika virus (Mordecai et al, 2019), West Nile virus (Paz, 2015), Bluetongue virus (Guis et al, 2012), Leishmaniasis (Chalghaf et al, 2018), Malaria (Kulkarni et al, 2016), and Chagas disease (Ayala et al, 2019). Temperature effect on the biting rate, reproduction, development, survival, and probability of becoming infectious after biting an infectious host (i.e., vector competence) has been reported on several disease vectors (Ciota et al, 2014; Damborsky et al, 2005; Luz et al, 1999; Shapiro et al, 2017).…”