Zhengyu Yang

Risk, burden, and trend of infectious disease hospitalisations associated with floods: a multicountry, time-series study Flood exposure was associated with increased hospitalisation risks for foodborne and waterborne diseases, airborne diseases, skin and mucous-membrane infections, and sexually transmitted infections, l...

We analysed ~27M infectious disease hospitalisations across 709 communities in 6 countries (2000–2019) and found that flood exposure increases infection-related hospitalisations for up to 26 weeks after flooding
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