A billion more people will be newly exposed to mosquito-borne diseases like dengue fever as global warming hits its stride over the next 60 years, according to modelling by US researchers.
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| Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that carries dengue, chikungunya, Zika viruses, coming to a warming neighbourhood near you |
The research team led by Sadie J. Ryan of the University of Florida, and global change biologist Dr Colin J. Carlson at Georgetown University, studied what would happen if the two most common disease-carrying mosquitoes – Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus – spread to places that become warmer and more humid with climate change.
The net result is that most of the world’s population will become vulnerable to infection – either sporadically or seasonally – by the dengue, chikungunya and Zika viruses between now and 2080.
Read the story The New Daily by John Elder - “Dengue fever: Entire world’s population to be at risk, climate change to blame.”
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