A new study has found that extreme climatic conditions, such as the increased frequency of droughts and floods expected with global warming, can turn normally harmless infections into considerable threats. An international research team, including University of Minnesota researcher Craig Packer, found that weather extremes are capable of altering normal host-pathogen relationships and causing a "perfect storm" of multiple infectious outbreaks that can devastate populations of wildlife or livestock.

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