Impacts of climate change on indirect human exposure to pathogens and chemicals from agriculture

Boxall, Alistair B A and Hardy, Anthony and Beulke, Sabine and Boucard, Tatiana and Burgin, Laura and Falloon, Peter D and Haygarth, Philip M and Hutchinson, Thomas and Kovats, R Sari and Leonardi, Giovanni and Levy, Leonard S and Nichols, Gordon and Parsons, Simon A and Potts, Laura and Stone, David and Topp, Edward and Turley, David B and Walsh, Kerry and Wellington, Elizabeth M H and Williams, Richard J (2008) Impacts of climate change on indirect human exposure to pathogens and chemicals from agriculture. Environmental Health Perspectives, 117 (4). pp. 508-514. ISSN 1552-9924

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Abstract

Climate change is likely to affect the nature of pathogens and chemicals in the environment and their fate and transport. Future risks of pathogens and chemicals could therefore be very different from those of today. In this review, we assess the implications of climate change for changes in human exposures to pathogens and chemicals in agricultural systems in the United Kingdom and discuss the subsequent effects on health impacts.