Climate change can supercharge pathogens, weaken humans, and create more opportunities for infectious diseases to spread. | BISouthAfrica
Business Insider USA worker sprays insecticide for mosquitoes at a village in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 12, 2017.Climate change is expected to weaken humans, supercharge pathogens, and push both into closer quarters.
In 1997 and 1998, catastrophic fires erupted across Indonesia, punctuating a long drought and, many scientists suspect, driving fruit bats from their forest homes into Malaysia. There, the story goes, the increased bat population was attracted to fruiting trees on pig farms. Grey-headed flying foxes hang in an animal trainer's house in the outskirts of Bangkok, on September 10, 2009.By assessing historical records of infectious diseases dating back to the Roman Empire, Mora's team catalogued cases of climate extremes facilitating the spread of 58% of known human pathogens.It's likely an undercount, he added, since it only includes instances that were documented in published papers.
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