Climate change is making the world sick

Subject :Environment

Section: Climate change

Context:

The public health has been compromised by climate change in the form of heat stress, Lung damage from wildfire smoke, and the spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes into new regions as temperatures rise.

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From 2030malnutrition, malaria and dengue, diarrhoea, and heat stress will push global death tolls up by 250,000 per year, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The warmer temperatures and heavy rains create more hospitable conditions for disease-carrying mosquitoes to breed and spread to new regions.
- Malaria (a mosquito-born disease) spread into the highlands of Africa that previously had been too cold for mosquitoes.
Diseases that are spreading fast due to warming and heavy rain are- Diarrhoea, Cholera, Malaria, dengue, Zika, and West Nile among others.
The world is already about 1.1 degrees C warmer than the average pre-industrial temperature and people in 2022 experienced about 86 days on average of dangerously high temperatures that resulted in drier forests and extreme wildfires.