Climate change exacerbates the impact of pathogens on humans.

August 10, 2022

Natural disasters exacerbate approximately 58% of human pathogenic diseases. That is, because of the climate crisis, the risk of epidemics caused by viruses, bacteria, animals, fungi is growing. American scientists came to such conclusions during the analysis of an interactive scheme demonstrating the relationship between natural disasters and 375 diseases. It turned out that 277 of them are spreading more actively due to heat, forest fires and floods. In total, scientists have found 3213 examples in history when disease outbreaks were associated with climate disasters.