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{"title":"Landscape Heterogeneity Predicts Mosquito Vector Diversity in a Semi-arid Urbanization.","authors":"Ana Leite-Vital, Fredy Alvarado, Carlos Renato Ramos-Palacios, Alex Córdoba-Aguilar","doi":"10.1007/s10393-026-01793-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10393-026-01793-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Urbanized sites are heterogeneous environments where socio-ecological elements and complex land-use dynamics coexist. The proximity of hosts, vectors and high human density leaves inhabitants at risk of zoonotic diseases. Consequently, we urgently need to understand vector ecology in urban areas, especially in arid areas where accumulation of water in containers promotes mosquito breeding. Our aim here was to understand how the community structure of vector mosquitoes is linked to: a) social variables, b) microclimatic variables (temperature and relative humidity) and c) landscape heterogeneity (a measure of diversity of land use). This study was conducted in a semi-arid Mexican city, San Luis Potosí. Twenty-one sampling units were used that varied in marginalization and urbanization degree. Mosquitoes were collected in June and August in 2024, to represent the dry and wet seasons, respectively, using CDC traps for adults. We identified 15 vector mosquito species whereby Culex tarsalis (30%) was the most dominant species, followed by Cx. quinquefasciatus (28%), Cx. interrogator and Aedes aegypti (10%). Abundance and richness were largely explained by landscape heterogeneity. Ae. aegypti responded to a combination of urban and natural (non-urbanized) degree. Opposite to expectation, neither temperature nor humidity explained changes in richness and diversity, yet high marginalization and low marginalization were key to explaining community structure. These findings can be used for identifying priority areas for urban vector and arboviral disease control.</p>","PeriodicalId":51027,"journal":{"name":"Ecohealth","volume":" ","pages":"398-409"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13582034/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147730624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Predicting the Global Distribution of Vibrio vulnificus Under Changing Climate Scenarios.","authors":"Jan Andrew L Bautista, Christine R Hernaez, Jose Carlos L Nicdao, Jed Miguel P Santos, Loida M Recopuerto-Medina, Nikki Heherson A Dagamac","doi":"10.1007/s10393-026-01779-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10393-026-01779-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vibrio vulnificus is a Gram-negative bacterium and an emerging pathogen globally distributed in brackish and marine waters. It can be transmitted to humans through contaminated food, which causes primary septicemia, or through wound exposure, causing necrotizing fasciitis. Increased abundance and range expansion have recently been associated with climate change. Further understanding of the spatial epidemiology of V. vulnificus is necessary, and species distribution modeling is a technique to correlate all the factors related to the spread of V. vulnificus. Through meta-analysis aided by Rayyan, extraction of environmental variables from Bio-ORACLE, and global mapping using QGIS and MaxEnt, a global model of V. vulnificus suitability is projected under current and future climate scenarios. The model indicates that sea surface minimum chlorophyll-a, mean dissolved oxygen, mean pH, and mean salinity are good predictors of V. vulnificus occurrence, with minimum chlorophyll-a and mean salinity having the greatest percent contribution at 53.3 and 31.6, respectively. Specific geographic locations with moderate to high V. vulnificus suitability include the west coast of Colombia, the coast of Uruguay, the northeastern coast of Brazil, the coast of Maryland and Louisiana, USA, the coast of China, the Black Sea, the south coast of South Africa, and the coast of Poland and Lithuania. A northward shift in V. vulnificus populations is observed due to climate change driven by plankton migration and decreasing salinity. These findings highlight the potential of these suitability maps for future V. vulnificus surveillance, and disease protection and control.</p>","PeriodicalId":51027,"journal":{"name":"Ecohealth","volume":" ","pages":"556-573"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147516633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Québec Wildfires and Respiratory Emergency Department Visits in Charlottesville, Virginia.","authors":"Luis M Sanabria Segura, Wendy M Novicoff, Kyle B Enfield, Sara Kakatkar, Robert E Davis","doi":"10.1007/s10393-026-01783-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10393-026-01783-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The decline in air quality from wildfires is known to have detrimental health impacts locally, but less is known about the effects far from the source. To address this gap, we analyzed visits to the University of Virginia Emergency Department from 2017 to 2023 by examining the impact of elevated PM_2.5 levels on respiratory visits. For this analysis, high exposure days were defined as those with PM_2.5 levels 2 or more standard deviations above the 2017-2023 average, specifically during the summer of 2023 when the Québec wildfires plume was advected over central Virginia. The results showed higher odds ratios on high PM_2.5 days compared to dates with normal exposure (1.190 [1.026,1.380]). This result was observed in males (1.388, [1.122,1.716]) and in white individuals (1.220 [1.009, 1.475]). Additionally, a comparison of mean ED visit departures (detrended and deseasoned) revealed that same day respiratory visits were significantly elevated on high exposure days (mean departure difference =  + 1.886, p = 0.027). These findings indicate that wildfires can have measurable health impacts in areas far from their origin.</p>","PeriodicalId":51027,"journal":{"name":"Ecohealth","volume":" ","pages":"528-538"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13582307/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147482197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exposure to Phthalates and Alterations in Reproductive Hormones in Pregnant Women.","authors":"Abderrezak Khelfi, Sonia Nait Ibrahim, Nadjlaa Haddi, Mohamed Azzouz","doi":"10.1007/s10393-026-01778-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10393-026-01778-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Phthalates are ubiquitous environmental contaminants known for their endocrine-disrupting properties. Pregnancy is a particularly vulnerable period during which exposure to these compounds may adversely affect maternal health and fetal development. This study aimed to evaluate the exposure of pregnant women to phthalates, specifically diethyl phthalate (DEP), di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), and di-n-butyl phthalate (DnBP), and to investigate potential associations between urinary concentrations of their metabolites (MEP (monoethyl phthalate), MEHP (mono-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate), and MnBP (mono-n-butyl phthalate)) and circulating reproductive hormone levels. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 384 pregnant women. Reproductive hormones (LH, FSH, testosterone, progesterone, estradiol, and prolactin) were quantified by electrochemiluminescence. Urinary concentrations of phthalate metabolites were measured using LC-MS/MS and normalized to creatinine levels. Phthalate metabolites were detected in the majority of samples (MEP: 97.4%; MEHP: 95.6%; MnBP: 92.9%). Mean concentrations were 83.50 ± 89.13 µg/g creatinine for MEP, 37.92 ± 41.08 µg/g for MEHP, and 44.64 ± 48.17 µg/g for MnBP. Phthalate detection frequencies did not differ significantly across residential regions, except for urinary MEHP concentrations, which were higher among women residing in the Eastern region of Algiers (53.039 µg/g creatinine). No significant differences in detection frequencies between 2022, 2023, and 2024 were observed; however, the highest urinary MEHP concentrations were recorded in 2022 (47.922 µg/g creatinine). Significant inverse associations were observed between urinary MEP and MEHP concentrations and plasma progesterone and testosterone levels (β_{MEP-progesterone}: - 0.216; β_{MEHP-progesterone}: - 0.523; β_{MEP-testosterone}: - 0.001; β_{MEHP-testosterone}: - 0.001). Estradiol levels were also negatively associated with MEP (β = - 23.301) and MnBP (β = - 33.241). Maternal exposure to phthalates was associated with alterations in reproductive hormone levels during pregnancy. These findings underscore the need to further investigate the potential implications of such hormonal disruptions for both maternal and fetal health.</p>","PeriodicalId":51027,"journal":{"name":"Ecohealth","volume":" ","pages":"539-555"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147312199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sustainable Laboratory Practice for a Healthier Ecosystem.","authors":"Allan Johannes Andaria, Julystia Pratiwi Egidia Mole","doi":"10.1007/s10393-026-01801-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10393-026-01801-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Medical laboratories are central to modern healthcare, yet their environmental footprint remains largely overlooked within global sustainability frameworks. As diagnostic demands rise, laboratories increasingly consume substantial amounts of energy, water, chemicals, and single-use materials, contributing significantly to biomedical waste and ecological degradation. Recent literature highlights that sustainable laboratory operations require integrated strategies, including energy efficiency, responsible chemical use, optimized resource management, and workforce education. Building on this evidence, the letter underscores that laboratory sustainability is not only a technical aspiration but a public health necessity aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those concerning responsible consumption, climate action, and ecosystem protection. In many regions, rapid laboratory expansion outpaces sustainable infrastructure, amplifying environmental risks. Therefore, policymakers must establish clear sustainability guidelines and empower medical laboratory technologists as key agents of change. Strengthening sustainable laboratory ecosystems is essential to advancing EcoHealth principles and ensuring the long-term well-being of humans, animals, and the environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":51027,"journal":{"name":"Ecohealth","volume":" ","pages":"373-375"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147678451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comment on \"The Influence of Sustainability on COVID-19 Death Rates by State in the USA\".","authors":"Hinpetch Daungsupawong, Viroj Wiwanitkit","doi":"10.1007/s10393-026-01780-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10393-026-01780-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51027,"journal":{"name":"Ecohealth","volume":" ","pages":"371-372"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147976995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Role of Public Health in Wildfire: Lessons from the Field.","authors":"Heidi E Brown, Erika Austhof, Daniel Ferguson, Ladd Keith","doi":"10.1007/s10393-026-01784-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10393-026-01784-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Risk of human exposure to wildfire is increasing, with detrimental effects on human health. Public health is uniquely placed to support community resilience during wildfire events, but the nature of public health's role remains unclear. Participants were recruited from government health entities in Southwestern counties that had previously experienced wildfires or significant smoke exposure. We used semi-structured interviews to understand perceptions and actions around wildfire response. To support public health practitioners' role in proactive and comprehensive wildfire outreach, evidence to support the interventions is summarized. In June 2024, 14 individuals from 12 organizations in Arizona and New Mexico were interviewed. Three themes emerged: (1) clear and consistent messaging, (2) connecting people to resources, and (3) flexibility supports capacity. There is evidence to support the need for clear and consistent messaging, but limited evidence on best practices for difficult to reach communities. More evidence is needed for which interventions work during a wildfire, adaptations for marginalized communities, and interventions when facing multiple hazards. Public health is shifting from passive education to proactive, comprehensive wildfire outreach. As part of a cross-sectoral response, public health is integral to disseminating consistent and clear messaging. Further, public health has an important role in facilitating access to resources, though there is a need for efficacy studies of what resources, under which circumstances, and for which populations. Finally, any successful response will require cooperation across sectors and community partners. Within the funding landscape for public health entities, flexibility in resource allocation is critical.</p>","PeriodicalId":51027,"journal":{"name":"Ecohealth","volume":" ","pages":"516-527"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13582067/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147522708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using Serosurveys to Optimize Surveillance for Zoonotic Pathogens.","authors":"E Clancey, S L Nuismer, S N Seifert","doi":"10.1007/s10393-026-01789-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10393-026-01789-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Zoonotic pathogens pose significant risk to human health, with spillover into human populations contributing to chronic disease and epidemics. Despite the widely recognized burden of zoonotic spillover, our ability to identify which animal populations serve as primary reservoirs remains incomplete. This challenge is compounded when prevalence in reservoir populations reaches detectable levels only at specific times of year. In these cases, statistical models designed to predict the timing of peak prevalence could guide field sampling for active infections or predict when spillover risk is likely to be greatest. Thus, we develop a general mathematical model that leverages routinely collected serosurveillance data to optimize sampling for elusive pathogens. Using simulated data, we show that our methodology reliably identifies times when pathogen prevalence is expected to peak. Then, we demonstrate an implementation of our method using previously published surveillance data in straw-colored fruit bats (Eidolon helvum). The generality and simplicity of our methodology make it broadly applicable to a wide range of putative reservoir species where seasonal patterns of birth lead to cyclic, but potentially short-lived, pulses of pathogen prevalence.</p>","PeriodicalId":51027,"journal":{"name":"Ecohealth","volume":" ","pages":"465-474"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13334785/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147787828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Microbial Dormancy and Reactivation in One Health: Cross-Domain Pathways and Risks.","authors":"Adil Abalkhail, Thamer Alslamah, Najeeb Ullah Khan","doi":"10.1007/s10393-026-01785-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10393-026-01785-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Microbial dormancy enables microorganisms to persist under unfavourable conditions and reactivate when ecological or host environments become permissive. While dormancy supports microbial resilience, it also creates cross-domain \"hidden reservoirs\" that can destabilize ecosystems, amplify zoonotic risk, and sustain antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This narrative review synthesizes evidence across environmental, animal, and human systems to explain how reactivation triggers propagate through One Health pathways-for example, nutrient enrichment or warming in aquatic/soil environments → microbial revival and amplification → exposure in livestock/wildlife → human infection via food, water, aerosols, or vectors. Dormant pathogens can persist in soil, water, sediments, biofilms, and host-associated niches, frequently evading culture-based detection and re-emerging under stressors such as temperature shifts, hydrological change, malnutrition, immunosuppression, and antimicrobial exposure. Dormancy also facilitates AMR persistence through survival of tolerant subpopulations, biofilm protection, and environmental dissemination of resistance determinants. Because key cues governing dormancy-reactivation remain incompletely characterized and surveillance systems rarely target dormant states, outbreak forecasting and mitigation are often delayed. The review therefore proposes dormancy-aware One Health surveillance and response, including field-deployable molecular detection, shared data platforms, and targeted interventions at environmental and veterinary interfaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":51027,"journal":{"name":"Ecohealth","volume":" ","pages":"574-587"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147488339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Designing Infection-Resilient Cruise Ships: Architectural & Digital Health Strategies.","authors":"Cecilia Ceccarelli, Massimo Ciccozzi, Fabio Scarpa, Giancarlo Ceccarelli, Francesco Branda","doi":"10.1007/s10393-026-01829-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10393-026-01829-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51027,"journal":{"name":"Ecohealth","volume":" ","pages":"378-391"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148609917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}