1. Insect-borne diseases imperil humans and animals, and there are many mosquito-borne diseases with complicated manifestations.

2. But the links between climate and insect-borne disease are far from simple (see Table 1 for potential interactions).

3. Climate change's complex links with insect-borne disease need solid research — not alarmism that distracts from other crucial factors.

4. Scientists broadly agree that climate change will affect insect-borne diseases, but the exact consequences remain uncertain.

5. It is true that many insect-borne diseases are influenced by climate.

6. Conclusion JE and kala-azar were historically common insect-borne infectious diseases in Longnan.

7. Insect-borne diseases will remain a major public health challenge in the coming decades.

8. There is clearly a link between insect-borne diseases and climate.

9. Priya Shetty explains the links between climate change and insect-borne disease, and outlines priorities for developing country policymakers.

10. Still, it is possible that environmental changes triggered by a changing global climate system may extend territories where insect-borne diseases are endemic.

11. Over the coming century, climate change will worsen virtually every health problem we know of, from heart disease and heatstroke to salmonella and insect-borne infectious diseases.

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12. For health sectors to justify the large sums of money they will need if climate change does accelerate insect-borne disease, they must be able to convince governments that it is a high priority.

13. It is clear that the scientific jury considering climate change's impact on insect-borne disease is still out.

14. When journalists communicate how climate change might affect the spread of insect-borne disease, they play an ambitious, yet pivotal, mediator's role.

15. Dengue, encephalitis, yellow fever and many other water- or insect-borne diseases are on the rise.

16. We urgently need to build our understandingof how climate change will affect health, especially through insect-borne disease.

17. These explore the evidence for (and against) the notion that climate change will worsen the burden of insect-borne disease, highlights gaps in our knowledge, and provides advice to policymakers.

18. Eradicating tobacco may prove every bit as hard as fighting insect-borne disease.

19. A biologist has inadvertently made history after becoming the first person to pass on an insect-borne virus to another human by sexual contact.

20. Regardless of climate change, these measures are crucial to tackling insect-borne disease in the developing world, he says (see Tackling insect-borne disease whatever the weather).