Nobel laureate predicts climate change to threaten human health

Nobel laureate Peter Doherty
says climate change
threatens human health.

Leading immunologist Professor Peter Doherty has predicted major improvements in human health by 2066 – but with a sting in the tail from climate change.

Looking ahead 50 years in this week's Griffith Review, the co-winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for physiology writes that cancers will be cured and genetic, personalised medicine will be the norm.

“One of the things that will improve human health is knowing an individual’s susceptibility pattern and then tailoring healthcare delivery to that individual rather than on a gross population level,” says Prof Doherty.

He believes the human immune system will survive upcoming battles with viruses.

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