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There is a range of waterborne diseases and parasites that will pose greater health risks in the future. This will vary by region. For example, in Africa, Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis (protozoan parasites) will increase. This is due to increasing temperatures and drought. [4]: 1095
Beginning in March, warmer weather has contributed to an increase of dengue fever infections in Indonesia. [9] By the week of 8 April, there were 62,001 infections and 475 deaths from dengue, compared to 22,551 infections and 170 deaths in the same period of 2023. [10]
Increasing heat waves are one effect of climate change that affect human health: Illustration of urban heat exposure via a temperature distribution map: red shows warm areas, white shows hot areas. The effects of heatwaves tend to be more pronounced in urban areas because they are typically warmer than surrounding rural areas due to the urban ...
Map of increasing heatwave trends (frequency and cumulative intensity) over the midlatitudes and Europe, July–August 1979–2020 [44] Heatwaves over land have become more frequent and more intense in almost all world regions since the 1950s, due to climate change. Heat waves are more likely to occur simultaneously with droughts.
Brutal heatwaves are gripping both Europe and the United States this week and are forecast to dump searing heat on much of China into late August. In addition to temperatures spiking above 40 ...
Though this is primarily a climate change-induced trend, we humans and our behaviors, lifestyles and policies are equally responsible." [ 24 ] An analysis conducted using the Climate Shift Index (CSI), a metric developed by Climate Central , found that climate change at least doubled the chances of the June heat wave in Uttar Pradesh, India.
“This idea of natural immunity is not really panning out with this virus,” Dr. Hilary Fairbrother, an emergency medicine physician based in Houston, TX, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above).
Research on how marine heatwaves influence atmospheric conditions is emerging. Marine heatwaves in the tropical Indian Ocean are found to result in dry conditions over the central Indian subcontinent. [50] At the same time, there is an increase in rainfall over south peninsular India in response to marine heatwaves in the northern Bay of Bengal.