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Polio is back, monkeypox isn’t slowing down, COVID-19 is still around — and now there’s more not-so-good news on the infection front: over 200 human diseases could get worse because of climate change, according to aResearchers have known for a long time that the changing climate affects disease. Warmer temperatures can make regions newly hospitable to disease-carrying mosquitoes, while floods from more frequent storms can carry bacteria in their surges of water.
Most research, though, only focused on a handful of threats or one disease at a time. The new study, published in, built a comprehensive map of all of the ways various climate hazards could interact with 375 documented human infectious diseases.found that, of those 375 diseases, 218 could be aggravated by things like heatwaves, rising sea levels, and wildfires.
The study found four main ways climate change exacerbates diseases. First, problems happen when changes cause disease-carrying animals to move closer to people. For example, animal habitats are disrupted by things like wildfires that drive bats and rodents into new areas, increasing the likelihood they’ll transmit diseases like Ebola to people.
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