Sohu Pharmaceutical | "Nature": More than half of the infectious diseases can be activated or deteriorated due to warming the climate

Produced | Sohu Health

Author | Zhou Yichuan

Edit | Yuan Yue

Climate change such as global warming can have a significant threat to human health. On August 8th, the "Nature" magazine warned that 218 kinds of known 375 infectious diseases could be activated and accelerated due to climate change.

Researchers expound the relationship between climate and pathogen and humans from 4 aspects:

1. The pathogen is close to humans.

Heating up and expanding the survival and life cycle of the diseased media, and the ecological destruction of wildfire and floods leads to the overflow of the virus. The frozen soil of high latitudes and regions melted the anthurium in the Arctic Circle. Just like "Pandora's Box", I don't know how many ancient pathogens will be released.

2. Human is close to pathogens

Continuous high temperatures make people closer to the water body and increase the risk of gastrointestinal infection. Human beings have formed a new disease exchange circle on wild regions. In cities, there are increased indoor activities in heavy rain and high temperature climate, which has accelerated the new crown infection.

3. Strengthen pathogenic transmission power

Climate warming makes creatures such as mosquitoes more active, increasing the spread of malaria and yellow fever diseases; marine warming accelerated algae growth to form algae; high temperature changes the gene expression of microorganisms and increases toxicity.

4. Reduce human immunity

Climate change can easily lead to the decline of human immunity and accelerate the spread of diseases such as influenza. The disaster environment damage the infrastructure such as hospitals and water stations, making humans more exposed to pathogens and difficult to obtain treatment.

Infectious diseases such as new crowns, influenza, Zaka, Ebola, etc., cause a large number of people to develop diseases every year, and millions of people die, including huge economic losses. Given climate change can bring great health threats and climate protection from a variety of ways, very urgent.

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