Climate change is creating ideal conditions for infectious diseases to spread more quickly, according to The Lancet Countdown's annual climate report out Wednesday.
These events have had serious impacts on the health of entire regions and the vulnerable causing preventable deaths, food and water insecurity and the spread of infectious diseases.Subscribe for freeThe report pleads with leaders to find more sustainable solutions in nations' emergency action plans as they recover from the pandemic and reinvest in their infrastructures.
Health care systems are "ill-prepared for current and future climate-induced health shocks," the report says. Nearly half of 91 countries surveyed in 2021 reported having carried out a climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation assessment. Money dedicated toward health systems to adapt to climate change only represents 0.3% of total funding worldwide.threatens to undo decades of progress to control diseases such as dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika, malaria and cholera.
Environmental conditions conducive for malaria is increasing cooler highland areas of underdeveloped countries. Bacteria that lead to conditions gastroenteritis, severe wound infections, and sepsis is emerging near coasts around northern Europe and the U.S.World leaders including President Biden are to discuss how to secure global carbon net-zero by 2050, the Paris Climate Accord, and how to keep the 1.5°C limit on warming at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 26th Conference of the Parties in Glasgow, UK at the end of the month.
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