Diseases such as hepatitis, pneumonia, malaria may become more severe

A research team from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, greenhouse gas (GHG) to emissions every known human being of the 10 sensitive climate hazards pathogenic disease They did a study on the effects on These hazards include warming, drought, heat waves, wildfires, heavy rains, floods, storms, sea level rise, ocean biogeochemical change, and land cover change.

Researchers combined all known infections and pathogenic diseases that have so affected humanity with climatic hazards and sifted through hundreds of scientific papers to reveal examples. As a result of these studies and researches diseases more than half due to climatic hazards. can get heavy appeared.

Climate change has increased some diseases and decreased others.

The study found that warming, precipitation, flooding, drought, storms, land cover change, oceanic climate change, fires, heat waves and sea level changes all affect diseases triggered by viruses, bacteria, animals, fungi, protozoans, plants and chromists. . It has been revealed that pathogenic diseases are primarily transmitted by carriers, but can also be transmitted by water-borne, air-borne, direct contact and food-borne.

As a result of the research, known human pathogenic diseases more than 58% well 218 out of 375from at least one climate hazard. affected by appeared. Researchers also found that the vast majority of diseases climatic hazards while it is exacerbated by some (63 out of 286 diseasesIn addition, the team launched an interactive website that shows every link between climate hazard and a disease. This site allows users to inquire about specific hazards, diseases and see the evidence found.

The research team also notes that there is too much disease and transmission pathways for humanity to truly adapt to climate change, and that there is an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally.