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Alternate Text: Map depicting the elevated risk for specific disease outbreaks throughout the globe due to the forecast of El Niño conditions through spring of 2016.
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Map depicting the elevated risk for specific disease outbreaks throughout the globe due to the forecast of El Niño conditions through spring of 2016.

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Guidance provided to stakeholders by Dr. Anyamba’s team on August 28, 2015, indicating the elevated risk for specific disease outbreaks throughout the globe due to the forecast of El Niño conditions through spring of 2016. El Niño conditions did, in fact, strengthen through the fall of 2015 and persist until the spring of 2016. Climate.gov modified figure from A. Anyamba.