Drought dynamics explain once in a century yellow fever virus outbreak in Brazil with implications for climate change

Drought dynamics explain once in a century yellow fever virus outbreak in Brazil with implications for climate change

Abstract While excess rainfall is associated with mosquito-borne disease because it supports mosquito breeding, drought may also counterintuitively increase disease transmission by altering mosquito and host behavior. This phenomenon is important to understand because climate change is projected to increase both extreme rainfall and drought. In this study, we investigated the extent to which seasonally driven mosquito and primate behavior drove …