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The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease

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Brooks, Daniel R, Eric P. Hoberg and Walter A. Boeger. The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208chicago/9780226632582.001.0001

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Climate Change and the Emerging Disease Crisis: An Existential Threat to Technological Humanity

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The emerging infectious disease (EID) crisis encompasses all pathogens affecting humans and the species upon which we depend for survival and socio-economic development.
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