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Higher temperatures extremes could exacerbate negative infectious disease effects in social mammals

A scientific team led by a researcher at the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC, in collaboration with the Kalahari Meerkat Project, shows that ongoing climate change can increase disease outbreaks.
The study has been carried out with 22 years of weekly demographic data from more than 1000 female and 1000 male wild meerkats (Suricata suricatta) in the Kalahari Desert.