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The article presents an analysis on the focal Concepts and Synthesis paper of Kevin D. Lafferty on climate change impacts on infectious diseases. Lafferty's paper strongly summarizes the impact of climate change on mosquito--transmitted human infectious disease, as well as the inability of the people to detect climate drivers. The paper also failed to discuss the importance of climate warming and changes in host migratory in the spread of infectious diseases, the impact of climate change on disease dynamics, and the interaction between wildlife hosts and their communities of parasites.

The article presents the author's views on the focal Concepts and Synthesis paper of Kevin D. Lafferty on climate change impacts on infectious diseases. She believes that the paper has provided much-needed perspective to the increasing panic over the impacts of human-induced climate change on the distribution of infectious diseases. However, the paper failed to present the impact of temperature, moisture, and land cover on the demographics of the arthropod vectors.

The article presents the author's views on the focal Concepts and Synthesis paper of Kevin D. Lafferty about climate change. He observes that the paper has provided important insights on the ways climate change will modify the dynamics of infectious diseases. as well as discussing simple links between climate change and the rate of disease transmission. However, Lafferty's approaches need to be extended to consider the systems where transmission is dependent on climate variability.