Disease Risk Predicted by New Climate Change Adaptation Tool
date:Apr 21, 2014
oisoning risk, users can input data on water temperature, which influences Vibrio survival in oysters.

Data on air temperature and the prevalence of Campylobacter in poultry flocks is entered to estimate risks of eating chicken fillets.

For all diseases, the tool considers the risk in relation to the dose, for example, the volume of drinking water typically consumed per person per day.

The researchers say that the tool provides information which can help inform climate change adaptation. For
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