*CLIMATOLOGY, *CLIMATE change, *COMMUNICABLE diseases, *MOISTURE, TEMPERATURE & the environment
Abstract
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.