Assessing the risk of spread of Zika virus under current and future climate scenarios

Biosafety and Health

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Jingni Zhou¹  Peiwen Liu¹  Zetian Lai¹  Xiaoguang Chen¹  Yang Wu²  Ye Xu²  Jinbao Gu²  Tong Liu² 

[1] Institute of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China;

[2] Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research of Guangdong Province, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China;

关键词: Zika virus;    Aedes aegypti;    Aedes albopictus;    Species distribution modeling;    MaxEnt;    Urban cycle;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Zika virus (ZIKV) may cause severe microcephaly in newborn babies and Guillain-Barré syndrome in some adults. In recent decades, its range has expanded in 86 countries. There are two ecologically and evolutionarily district cycles: urban cycle and sylvatic cycle. This work aimed to estimate the urban and sylvatic cycle areas of ZIKV throughout the world. The occurrence records of vectors, non-human primate hosts, and ZIKV were collected. We chose historical climate data, predicted vectors distribution, human population density, and elevation data as the variables to fit the maximum entropy model (MaxEnt). Current risk area and future prediction were performed with global climate models (GCMs) and shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs). Predicting the ZIKV risk area would help tailor related control strategies. The results indicated that 16.6% of the world’s landmass (except Antarctica) is a risk area in the urban cycle. Approximately 6.22 billion people (78.69% of the global population) live in the risk area, with the vast majority in South Asia, tropical Africa, South America, North America, and countries around the Mediterranean Sea. Future climate change decreases the risk area of ZIKV. This study also suggested that the sylvatic cycle happened between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. The overlap region of the urban and sylvatic cycles could be hotpots that ZIKV spill from the sylvatic to the urban cycle. It is indicated that long-term passenger screening, mosquito surveillance, and control are necessary.

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