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<div><font style="font-size:12.8px" color="#76a5af" size="4"><b>CLIMATE,
OCEANS, HUMAN HEALTH, AND CHOLERA</b></font><br>
<b style="font-size:12.8px">Tuesday, March 7th, 4:00pm</b><br>
<b style="font-size:12.8px">Northwest Building B101<br>
</b><span style="font-size:12.8px">*Free and open to the public*</span><br>
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The Planetary Health Alliance hosts a lecture with Dr. Rita
Colwell, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of
Maryland and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public
Health and former director of the National Science Foundation.
Human health is assumed to be strongly linked to both
environmental quality and climate, but only in recent years has
scientific evidence accumulated sufficiently to move from
correlation to causation. Studies of water borne diseases have
shown a strong link with climate, especially climate extremes.
Useful examples of this connection are infections caused by Vibrio
spp., including Vibrio cholerae. Outbreaks of cholera have been
shown to be linked to climate cycles and extremes. Since Vibrio
cholerae and related Vibrio spp. are native to the aquatic
environment in semi-tropical and tropical areas of the world,
serious epidemics of cholera continue to occur in countries
subject to both environmental and climate stresses, e.g., Haiti,
Africa, and Bangladesh. Results of research on water borne
diseases, employing genomics, including gut metagenomics analysis
of cholera patients, and satellite monitoring of environmental
parameters, will be presented in predictive models. Evidence of
polymicrobial infections in diarrhoeal disease, based on
bioinformatics analysis of next generation sequencing data will
be presented.<br>
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