The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published a literature review titled “Assessing the potential impacts of climate change on food- and waterborne diseases in Europe”; Stockholm: ECDC; 2012.

In the report, the ECDC presents the findings of a comprehensive literature review, in which it identifies the published links between six Food and Waterborne (FWB) pathogens (Campylobacter spp., Cryptosporidium spp., Listeria spp., Norovirus, Salmonella spp. and non-cholera Vibrio spp.) and climate related parameters. The objective of the Report is to assess and evaluate the potential impacts of climate change on FWB disease transmission in the EU.

Posted below: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Assessing the potential impacts of climate change on food- and waterborne diseases in Europe, Stockholm: ECDC; 2012.

We comment that this document is a valuable resource for US public policy discussion. Public discussion (and research funding) on these issues is significantly restricted in the USA because of the influence of antiscience denialists on one of America’s two political parties which continues its refusal to acknowledge the anthropogenic causes of global climate change.