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Weather and Parasitic Animal Disease

World Meteorological OrganizationT.E. GIBSON (ed)

出版	Secretariat of the World Meteorological Organization, 1978
ISBN	92631049729789263104977
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MoUMAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Authors from several countries have contributed to this assembly of 19 scientific papers in which important complex influences of weather and climate on the distribution and prevalence of animal parasites are discussed. Subjects include: helminth parasites which cause animal diseases such as fascioliasis, nematodiriasis and parasitic gastro-enteritis; cestodes; ticks and other arthropod ectoparasites, including mosquitoes. Extensive bibliographies have been compiled for each topic. In each case, known effects of weather and climate on the ecology of the parasite are reviewed and, where appropriate, field and laboratory investigations into weather/parasite relationships are described. It is pointed out that standard weather observations can often be correlated with meteorological conditions at or near the ground and that parasite activity at surface level can thus be related to readily-available meteorological data. The development of weather/parasite models based on these relationships is described and discussed. Disease-forecasting systems already in operation using meteorological data are also discussed in detail; in the case of some such systems much progress in reported while in others the lack of relevant meteorological and/or biological data has reduced their potential usefulness. The Technical Note has six parts: Part I deals with weather and fascioliasis, Part II with weather and nematodes, Part III with weather and cestodes, Parts IV and V with weather and arthropod parasites and Part IV gives guidance in the use of meteorological and biological data in the establishment of disease/weather relationships.