Climate change is leading to heavier precipitation, more frequent hurricanes, and rising sea levels, all of which contribute to increasing flooding events across the globe. Flooding has the potential to increase the aquatic habitats required for the development of immature mosquitoes. The links between flooding and mosquito-borne disease activity are developing but much remains to be discovered. We will discuss current mechanisms and mitigating factors that modify the risk of mosquito-borne illnesses post-flooding. We will further discuss the methodologies that can be employed to explore this relationship including a discussion of relevant time lags, weather input variables, model selection, and the logistics of developing these studies during an emerging weather event. We will delve into the relevance to early warning systems and climate change projections. We will discuss an example analyses that examined the connection between aggregate level dengue data and flooding events across Mexico.
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