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Climate change and health consequences
Global warming also has an effect on human health. Heat waves are a particular health danger for the sick and the elderly. However, higher temperatures and increased precipitation levels are also leading to shifts in the distribution areas of dangerous vectors of disease. Extreme weather conditions that directly or indirectly provoke health hazards are on the increase in various regions of the world.
The trend toward milder winters and warmer summers accelerates the spread of transmissible infectious diseases via existent and non- (or not-yet-) indigenous pathogens. The U.S. Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) keeps a list of twelve diseases that are appearing in new regions as a result of climate change.
The serious diseases specified in this list include tuberculosis and malaria.
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