Environmental Expert: Global warming could be partly to blame for increases in some human and animal viral infections. A new Belgian study investigates the link between climate change and the recent increase in the human disease, nephropathia epidemica (NE), spread by rodents. The authors predict that NE could become a highly endemic disease in Belgium and neighbouring countries. ‘Vector-borne’ infections are transmitted between humans and animals by an in-between ‘vector’ or agent. These vectors are often …