The Impact of Climate Change on the Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases: Global Perspective
Journal Title: Journal of Enam Meical College - Year 2011, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
Climate change is one of the most complex challenges of the century, affecting all countries. Globalization and climate change have caused an unprecedented worldwide impact on emerging and re-emerging diseases including zoonoses in the recent years.1 Emerging infectious diseases refer to diseases caused by newly identified and previously unknown infectious agents that cause public health problems either locally or internationally, while reemerging infectious diseases are caused by infectious agents that have been known for some time, had fallen to such low levels that they were no longer considered public health problems and are now showing upward trends in incidence or prevalence worldwide. Microbes and vectors swim in the evolutionary stream, and they swim faster than we do. Global warming and climate change have taken diseases like malaria, dengue and other vector-borne diseases to new dimensions. Climatic factors, particularly temperature and rainfall, affect the ability of malarial parasites, viral propagation and potential mosquito vectors to coexist long enough to maintain and increase the rate of transmission.
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Iftikhar Ahmed
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