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    Climate change and animal diseases in South America
    (OFFICE INT EPIZOOTIES, 2008) Pinto, J.; Bonacic, C.; Hamilton West, C.; Romero, J.; Lubroth, J.
    Climate strongly affects agriculture and livestock production and influences animal diseases, vectors and pathogens, and their habitat. Global warming trends predicted in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climatic Change (IPCC) report for South America are likely to change the temporal and geographical distribution of infectious diseases, including those that are vector-borne such as bluetongue, West Nile fever, vesicular stomatitis and New World screwworm. Changes in distribution will be partially modulated by El Nino Southern Oscillation events, which will become more frequent and lead to a greater frequency of droughts and floods.