Upload
virgil-smith
View
215
Download
1
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Public Health Impacts of Climate Change in Maine
Dr. Dora Anne Mills, MD, MPHDirector, Maine Center for Disease Control
↑ Precipitation
CLIMATE CHANGE
↑ Air temperatures• Warmer winters• Hotter summers• More heat waves
↑ Heat-related morbidity and mortality
↑ Water temperatures
↑ Vector-borne diseases(Lyme, EEE, West Nile)
↑ Frequency of severe storms, flooding
↑ Pollen, Ozone
↑ Algal blooms (Red tide, cyanobacteria)
↑ Frequency of waterborne disease outbreaks (crypto, E. coli, giardiasis)
↑ Asthma
Lyme Disease in Maine
Lyme Disease Incidence in Maine has been Increasing
Lyme Disease Incidence, Maine and US, 2003-2009
0
20
40
60
80
100
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Rat
e p
er 1
00,0
00
Maine US New England
Lyme Disease in Maine
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
Lyme Disease is becoming more widespread in Maine
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
• First identified in ME in 2005
• One horse death and one human death (a visitor to Maine) in 2008
• 15 horses, 1 llama, 3 flocks of pheasants, and 2 mosquito pools diagnosed with EEE in 2009
Horses in a field, Biddeford, ME Image: dinidesign, Flickr
Mosquito. Image: Maine-CDC
West Nile Virus
• No human cases identified in Maine
• Bird monitoring – ended in 2007
• Mosquito monitoringMosquito. Image: Maine-CDC
Air PollutionDaily percent change in ED asthma-related visits for Greater Portland HSA area
for 10 ppb change In ozone levels
9%
14% 16%
-10%
6%
-30%
-20%
-10%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
2000(4)
2001(14)
2002(17)
2003(5)
2000-2003
% change in ED Visits, per 10 ppb
Ozone