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| Climate Change Is Spreading Disease. |
Posted on 21st January 2023 |
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If you have wondered why diseases seem to be getting worse, part of the reason may lie with climate change, according to
this report from the World Economic Forum.
The main conclusions are summarised in the table to the right.
We are living with the consequences of this:
- Increases in infections from known diseases like TB and measles;
- Increasing rates of mutation of disease like influenza, making infections more severe and infectious, and making vaccines less effective;
- Increased geographical ranges of known diseases like malaria;
- And previously unknown diseases like Covid-19 causing pandemics amongst humans.
As is clear from the table, climate change is not the only thing driving these changes, but it is an important contributor. We should therefore be prepared to have more
disease in our lives in future. We should also expect to pay higher taxes for controlling and preventing disease from now on.
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