Nearly 60 percent of the known pathogens that make people sick have been aggravated by warming-related weather hazards, according to a new study by University of Hawaii researchers.
They found nearly 60% of the known pathogens that make people sick have been aggravated by warming-related weather hazards, according to the study . The list included not only mosquito-borne viruses like malaria and dengue fever but also asthma, monkeypox, shellfish poisoning and even fungal infections like valley fever.
“The results were truly sobering,” said Erik Franklin, assistant professor at the university's Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology and a study co-author. The pathways included things like flood-transmitted disease and mosquitoes that thrive in heavy rainfall, spreading malaria and other diseases. Warming, rainfall and flooding were the three most frequent pathways pathogens could be transmitted to people.What do the findings mean?
“There are just too many diseases and pathways of transmission for us to think that we can truly adapt to climate change," said co-author Camilo Mora, geography professor in the University of Hawaii's College of Social Sciences."It highlights the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally.”Senate bill passage hailed as 'milestone' for climate fight. Here's what you need to know.
A study in April co-written by Colin Carlson, a global change biologist and assistant research professor at Georgetown University, and a group of collaborators
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