The risk of introducing new diseases, such as vectorborne diseases, is negligible.

Vectorborne disease: cutaneous leishmaniasis is a high risk in some locations (2005)

Assess the extent to which the reporting and information exchange processes for vectorborne diseases in Canada and elsewhere can be improved.

• climate change impact on exotic vectorborne diseases - travel and unintentional vector importation.

In areas of vectorborne and zoonotic diseases:

In Africa, and elsewhere, climate change is expected to have a negative effect on health, in particular due to the spread of vectorborne diseases further aggravating tensions.

Highlights for 4th quarter, 2002 (gastrointestinal disease, sexually transmissible diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases)

Edwin Masters, physician who received awards for his research in Lyme and vectorborne diseases which led the Centers for Disease Control to name Masters' disease after him.

Highlights for 2nd quarter, 2002 (bloodborne diseases, gastrointestinal illness, vaccine preventable diseases, vectorborne diseases, zoonoses, other bacterial infections, LabVISE)

There are food and waterborne diseases, bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever; vectorborne diseases, malaria, African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness); respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis, and schistosomiasis, a water contact disease, as of 2005.

"The project was successful in mobilizing communities with widespread grassroots participation, and high levels of acceptance of fish as an effective way of reducing the spread of dengue," said Dr. Eva Christophel, a WHO specialist in vectorborne diseases.

Vectorborne diseases Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) Lyme borreliosis is the most common vector-borne disease in the temperate zones of the northern hemisphere, transmitted to human beings by hard ticks of the genus Ixodes.

U.S. health officials rate the risk of infectious disease in Cambodia as "very high," notably from food or waterborne diseases (bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A and typhoid fever) and "vectorborne" diseases like dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis and malaria.

"This (Asia Pacific) region has traditionally been the focus of resistance to antimalarial drugs and now we have artemisinin resistance primarily on the Thai-Cambodian border," said John Ehrenberg, WHO regional adviser on malaria and other vectorborne and parasitic diseases.

Health Canada has identified eight significant climate change induced health effects which are expected to increase in the future in this country. They include health and well-being issues related to increased smog episodes, heat waves, water and food borne contamination, vectorborne diseases, stratospheric ozone depletion and extreme weather events.

LYME DISEASE — UNITED STATES, 1996 Lyme disease (LD) is caused by the tickborne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and is the most common vectorborne disease in the United States.