[The impacts of extreme events of weather and climate on infectious disease].

OBJECTIVE: In this paper the articles on the impacts of extreme events of weather and climate on infectious disease were summarized, in which were published in China from 1995 to 2008. Among all kinds of extreme events of weather and climate, flood, warm winter, high temperature and drought had the most obvious effect on infectious disease. In this paper, the impact on epidemic and activities of vectors and infectious parasites, as well as the change of incidence and epidemic scale of related infectious disease were respectively reviewed.