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Effects of Global Warming on Human Health

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Doctors and scientists around the world are becoming increasingly alarmed over global warming’s impact on human health. Abnormal and extreme weather, which scientists have long predicted would be an early effect of global warming, have claimed hundreds of lives across the US in recent years. Our warming climate is also creating the ideal conditions for the spread of infectious disease, putting millions of people at risk.

A report of the effects of global warming on health published by WHO, has estimated around one million fifty thousand deaths every year due to global warming. Few evidences of global warming leaving negative effects on human health are:

• The vectors distribution of infectious diseases have been altered and increased.
• Heat wave resulted causing deaths.
• Various extreme conditions of global warming like droughts, heat and cold wave, storm, flood, fire will increase the death tolls as well as injuries and diseases.
• It will cause increase of malaria, diarrhea, cholera, dengue, encephalitis and other diseases.

Heat waves will even cause cardio respiratory complications resulting to high rate of deaths.
The results of ill health due to climate change and infectious diseases are already evident. Florida, New Orleans, Arizona, Mississippi, Texas, Colorado, and California – all are experiencing encephalitis epidemic for global warming since 1987.

According to IPCC, 65% of world population will suffer from high risk of infectious diseases in near future. A participatory approach to the holistic development of human health is expected to sober down the effects of global warming on health to some extent.

News on Global Warming Health Effects:

Global warming health effects
Smog, heat waves may contribute to big rise in illness
sfgate.com (April 17, 2007) Higher temperatures over the coming decades are expected to cause more smoggy days and heat waves, contributing to a greater number of illnesses and deaths in the United States, according to international climate scientists.

ScienceDaily (Oct. 29, 2006) — Global warming could do more to hurt your health than simply threaten summertime heat stroke, says a public health physician. Although heat related illnesses and deaths will increase with the temperatures, climate change is expected to also attack human health with dirtier air and water, more flood-related accidents and injuries, threats to food supplies, hundreds of millions of environmental refugees, and stress on and possible collapse of many ecosystems that now purify our air and water.

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