ReviewEBioMedicine2023
Viral respiratory infections in a rapidly changing climate: the need to prepare for the next pandemic.
Review in EBioMedicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
72 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 89 citations in OpenAlex.
- Associations between sunshine and influenza or influenza-like illness, a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of biometeorology · 2026Pooled it
- The impact of climate change on airborne and droplet-borne diseases and hospital response measures.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Viral etiology of acute respiratory infections in Sub-Saharan Africa during the pre-COVID-19 period (2006-2019): a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Pooled it
- The influence of weather and urban environment characteristics on upper respiratory tract infections: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Associations between El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and tuberculosis incidence in China: a nationwide study.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Article
- Causes and Contributing Factors of In-Hospital and Post-Discharge Mortality Among Patients With Severe Acute Respiratory Infection in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Climate change and antimicrobial resistance.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Patterns in the dynamics of respiratory viruses after the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational, retrospective study using sentinel surveillance network data, Catalonia, 2022 to 2025.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2026Observational
- Disease burden of viral respiratory infections in people with intellectual disabilities: a scoping review.BMJ open respiratory research · 2026Article
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus Suppression through Public Health and Social Measures, Hong Kong, China, 2020-2023.Emerging infectious diseases · 2026Article
- How Pandemics Have Reshaped the Respiratory Virus Data Landscape in Europe: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Mental Health Screening Before and After the 2020 COVID-19 Closures of US College Campuses: A Cross-Sectional Comparison Using Natural Language Processing.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · 2026Article
- Absolute humidity drives seasonal influenza A transmission in Hong Kong through social contact modulation: Evidence from compartmental modeling.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2026Article
- Suppressing viral assembly in human metapneumovirus by targeting fusion protein with natural compounds: a structural dynamics and energetics study.Journal of molecular modeling · 2026Article
- Challenges and barriers to effective COVID-19 screening at Iran's air border crossings: a qualitative study and proposed solutions.Globalization and health · 2026Article
- A Review of Respiratory Infection Caused by the Human Metapneumovirus: Occurrence, Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Public Health Outcomes, and Intervention Strategies.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Climate change and respiratory health: implications for respiratory clinicians in primary and specialist care.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2026Review
- Acute respiratory viral diseases in Amazonas, Brazil: epidemiological patterns and implications for health surveillance.Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2026Article
- Age-stratified respiratory viral detection patterns and exploratory environmental associations in a tertiary-care hospital testing cohort in Istanbul, Türkiye.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Epidemiology and co-infection networks of pediatric respiratory pathogens in eastern China after COVID-19 restriction relaxation: a retrospective study.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
12 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Viral respiratory infections (VRIs) cause seasonal epidemics and pandemics, with their transmission influenced by climate conditions. Despite the risks posed by novel VRIs, the relationships between climate change and VRIs remain poorly understood. In this review, we synthesized existing literature to explore the connections between changes in meteorological conditions, extreme weather events, long-term climate warming, and seasonal outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics of VRIs from an interdisciplinary perspective. We proposed a comprehensive conceptual framework highlighting the potential biological, socioeconomic, and ecological mechanisms underlying the impact of climate change on VRIs. Our findings suggested that climate change increases the risk of VRI emergence and transmission by affecting the biology of viruses, host susceptibility, human behavior, and environmental conditions of both society and ecosystems. Further interdisciplinary research is needed to address the dual challenge of climate change and pandemics.
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