"Wildfires" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Fires that occur outdoors in the natural environment caused by natural forces or human activity.
| Descriptor ID |
D000075923
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.311.988 N06.230.216.875
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| Concept/Terms |
Wildfires- Wildfires
- Wildfire
- Wildland Fires
- Fire, Wildland
- Fires, Wildland
- Wildland Fire
- Brush Fires
- Brush Fire
- Fire, Brush
- Fires, Brush
- Forest Fires
- Fire, Forest
- Fires, Forest
- Forest Fire
- Wild Fires
- Fire, Wild
- Fires, Wild
- Wild Fire
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Wildfires" by people in Profiles.
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PM2.5, NO2, wildfires, and other environmental exposures are linked to higher Covid 19 incidence, severity, and death rates. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Oct; 28(39):54429-54447.
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SARS-CoV-2 test positivity rate in Reno, Nevada: association with PM2.5 during the 2020 wildfire smoke events in the western United States. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2021 09; 31(5):797-803.
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Record-breaking wildfires in the world's largest continuous tropical wetland: Integrative fire management is urgently needed for both biodiversity and humans. J Environ Manage. 2021 Sep 01; 293:112870.
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Health and social impacts of California wildfires and the deficiencies in current recovery resources: An exploratory qualitative study of systems-level issues. PLoS One. 2021; 16(3):e0248617.
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Reflections on a highly unusual summer: bushfires, COVID-19 and mosquito-borne disease in NSW, Australia. Public Health Res Pract. 2020 Dec 09; 30(4).
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The 2020 special report of the MJA-Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: lessons learnt from Australia's "Black Summer". Med J Aust. 2020 12; 213(11):490-492.e10.
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COVID and 2020: An extraordinary year for science. Nature. 2020 12; 588(7839):550-552.
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Effect of environmental pollutants PM-2.5, carbon monoxide, and ozone on the incidence and mortality of SARS-COV-2 infection in ten wildfire affected counties in California. Sci Total Environ. 2021 Feb 25; 757:143948.
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Letter from California, USA. Respirology. 2021 01; 26(1):127-128.
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Extreme Wildfires-A Growing Population Health and Planetary Problem. JAMA. 2020 Oct 27; 324(16):1605-1606.