The role of tropical cyclones in accelerating dengue transmission: insights from field experiments and dynamical modelling
Yu Yan, Mengjie Geng, Yuwen Zhong, Hui Deng, Shengjun Hu, Yating Chen, Wenting Guo, Yan Li, Haitao Wang, Taiyuan Zhang, Wentao Hu, Qi Zhao, Wei Ma · 2026
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Yu Yan and colleagues published a 2026 study on how tropical cyclones speed dengue spread in Guangzhou, China. Dengue is a mosquito-borne fever, and the city is China's most dengue-prone coastal megacity. Storms were known to raise risk, but the mechanism was unclear, so the team paired field tests on mosquitoes with epidemic modeling of the 2014 outbreak.
In release and recapture tests, storm winds stretched the flight range of the dengue mosquito by 63 percent and raised human-mosquito contact by about 30 percent. Modeling two 2014 typhoons tied one to 217 extra cases and the other to 5,131 extra cases, with matching money losses. Stronger mosquito control during one storm was projected to avert nearly 60,000 cases. The authors urge early control guided by storm warnings.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yu Yan, Mengjie Geng, Yuwen Zhong, Hui Deng, Shengjun Hu, Yating Chen, Wenting Guo, Yan Li, Haitao Wang, Taiyuan Zhang, Wentao Hu, Qi Zhao, Wei Ma |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42213 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |