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About warm summers, mosquito bites and a zoonotic virus
Climate change is going to affect many aspects of our lives like for example the spread of zoonotic infectious diseases. This creates new challenges for science as well as for the public health sector. A series of three workshops of the Zoonoses Platform in cooperation with the Academy for Public Health in Düsseldorf is therefore dedicated to the topic "Climate Change and Zoonoses". The first part of the series addressed the future challenges posed by climate change with regard to zoonoses in general. The second part focused on a newcomer to Germany: the mosquito-borne West Nile virus. Some