Warning given on hidden climate change disease threat

The growing number of storms and floods associated with climate change is increasing the risk of a serious human infection—and Australia's rural communities are underprepared. That's the stark warning from research led by the University of New England (UNE) in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. The authors recommend concerted testing of the public for the zoonotic infection leptospirosis, greater vigilance in regions well beyond the tropical north, and further urgent research.