Climate change to cause more diseases

Climate change to cause more diseases – study

By Red Mendoza

Sep 18, 2022 12:05 am

(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.

A vehicle drives past a dry, cracked lake bed on its way to Boulder Harbour in drought-stricken Lake Mead on September 15, 2022 in Boulder City, Nevada. - Located outside of Las Vegas near the Nevada-Arizona border, Lake Mead provides electricity to several parts of Arizona, California and Nevada and is also the source of water for rural, urban and tribal lands across the southwest. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)

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