The South-to-North Water Diversion (SNWD) project is designed to channel fresh water from the Yangtze River north to more industrialized parts of China. An important question is whether future climate change and dispersal via the SNWD may synergistically favor a northward expansion of species involved in hosting and transmitting schistosomiasis in China, specifically the intermediate host, Oncomelania hupensis.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/schistosoma-japonicum-transmission-risk-maps-present-and-under-climate-change
[2] http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0006021
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/gengping-zhu
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/jingyu-fan
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/townsend-peterson
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/plos-neglected-tropical-diseases
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/diseases
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-impacts
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/schistosomiasis
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/china
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/yangtze-kiang
