MSC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Meningococcal Disease, Dengue Fever, Lyme Disease
23 Nov 2016
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Impacts on health: climate change is a multiplier of existing health vulnerabilities. Limited access to health care and education: climate change affects health in all countries, not just poor/developing countries. Climate and infectious diseases: diseases spread by insects. Lyme disease: high or very high confidence that a shift in the geographic range and distribution of diseases is occurring. New areas not previously at risk for malaria are experiencing outbreaks. Diseases may come back to areas where they have been eradicated: higher temperatures and humidity increase reproduction of mosquitoes, meningococcal meningitis. Could be negatively affected by climate change. Occurs mostly february-may, linked to dry and dusty conditions. Areas that get more dry could be at risk: cholera. Waterborne bacterial diseases linked to el nino. Changes in monsoon can affect cholera incidence. Heavy rain, flooding, and overcrowded conditions plus poor sanitation are ideal conditions for cholera to outbreak. Spread of this diseases is especially risky in india.
