Floods, heat and other climate hazards are turning 218 infectious diseases into bigger threats, study says

Climate hazards turning 218 infectious diseases into bigger threats New research finds that more than half of infectious diseases known to affect humans were aggravated by climate change. NBC News

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“Climate drives habitat change and disruption around the world. That also brings humans into contact with animal species in ways that we were not in contact with them historically, or haven’t been in the recent past,” Leibler said. “Our recent pandemic is an example to the extent that the leading hypothesis is that bats might have played a role.”...