(UPDATE) CLIMATE change may trigger more ailments such as heat-related, vector-borne and infectious diseases with pandemic potential, a study commissioned by an insurance firm showed.

Based on the 2021 Healthscape Study commissioned by PruLife UK, climate change leads to injury and deaths due to typhoons and floods but also to soil-borne diseases due to poor hygiene and sanitation, water-borne and food-borne diseases, air and water pollution, and forced displacement due to these disasters.

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