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Flooding and abandonment have shaped rat demography across post-Katrina New Orleans

Ghersi, Bruno M. / Peterson, Anna C. / Riegel, Claudia / Campanella, Richard / Childs, James E. / Blum, Michael J.

Highlights • Disasters can result in conditions that promote transmission of zoonotic pathogens. • Rat demography was examined to assess public health risks in post-Katrina New Orleans. • Prevalence was higher in areas that sustained more severe flood damage and abandonment. • Prevalence reflects disaster response policies that have fortified health disparities.

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Flooding and abandonment have shaped rat demography across post-Katrina New Orleans

Ghersi, Bruno M. / Peterson, Anna C. / Riegel, Claudia / Campanella, Richard / Childs, James E. / Blum, Michael J.

Highlights • Disasters can result in conditions that promote transmission of zoonotic pathogens. • Rat demography was examined to assess public health risks in post-Katrina New Orleans. • Prevalence was higher in areas that sustained more severe flood damage and abandonment. • Prevalence reflects disaster response policies that have fortified health disparities.

Flooding and abandonment have shaped rat demography across post-Katrina New Orleans

Ghersi, Bruno M. / Peterson, Anna C. / Riegel, Claudia / Campanella, Richard / Childs, James E. / Blum, Michael J.

Highlights • Disasters can result in conditions that promote transmission of zoonotic pathogens. • Rat demography was examined to assess public health risks in post-Katrina New Orleans. • Prevalence was higher in areas that sustained more severe flood damage and abandonment. • Prevalence reflects disaster response policies that have fortified health disparities.

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Title:

Flooding and abandonment have shaped rat demography across post-Katrina New Orleans

Contributors:

Ghersi, Bruno M. (author) / Peterson, Anna C. (author) / Riegel, Claudia (author) / Campanella, Richard (author) / Childs, James E. (author) / Blum, Michael J. (author)

Published in:

Landscape and Urban Planning ; 215

Publication date:

2021-08-06

ISSN:

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104218

Type of media:

Article (Journal)

Type of material:

Electronic Resource

Language:

English

Keywords:

Counter-urbanization , Disaster , Hurricane , Health disparities , Rodents , Rodent-borne disease

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