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© Thomson Reuters 2023.Climate change leads to more malaria, tuberculosis up in a recession
By Leela de Kretser DAVOS, Switzerland©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Infectious diseases are a huge handicap for nations in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, this is because many of them are sensitive to the climate, specially those that are arthropod vectored such as malaria.
The highlands of Africa are just one of the regions where these diseases can now spread much more easily thanks to the spreading of the mosquitoes, fractions of a degree more could mean many other could follow and people that are not used bir prepared to deal with the outbreaks would soon be experiencing them.
Japan for example is also vulnerable to mosquito transmitted diseases, as the spreading of Japanese Encephalitis virus proves, thankfully JE can be fought with vaccines, other diseases like Dengue or Chikungunya fever not.