These are just a few of the ways that public health has been impacted and compounded by climate change - a focus for the first time ever at the annual U.N. climate summit COP28. Here’s how climate change is harming people’s health across the world today, and what countries might expect in the future. Climate change is also having an unpredictable impact on malaria, with 5 million more cases registered in 2022 than the previous year, reaching a total of 249 million, the WHO’s World Malaria Report found. Murky watersStorms and flooding wrought by climate change are allowing other infectious water-borne diseases to proliferate as well. Diarrhoea, too, receives a boost from climate change, with increasingly erratic rainfall - resulting in either wet or dry conditions - yielding a higher risk, research has found.

Source: The Hindu December 03, 2023 14:08 UTC