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Impact of climate change on vaccine responses and inequity

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Climate change poses a substantial threat to global health by altering environmental conditions and impacting vaccine effectiveness. We explore how climate change impacts vaccines and worsens inequities, highlighting the need for further research and targeted interventions.

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Fig. 1: Impact of climate change on vaccine efficacy, safety and inequity.

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This work was partially supported by the National Institutes of Health (U24AI171008, R01AG081244 and R24ES036131).

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  1. Department of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Integrated Health Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York, Rensselaer, NY, USA

    Kai Zhang

  2. McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA

    Yifang Dang & Yiming Li

  3. Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA

    Cui Tao

  4. Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA

    Junguk Hur

  5. Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Yongqun He

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Zhang, K., Dang, Y., Li, Y. et al. Impact of climate change on vaccine responses and inequity. Nat. Clim. Chang. 14, 1216–1218 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02192-y

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