A Review of the Influence of Global Warming on the Spread of Tropical Diseases
Abstract
Global warming means continous upswing in the mean temperature of the Earth which occurs mainly as a result of increase in greenhouse gas emission. This review describe the various ways in which green-house gases (carbondioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides, etc.) and its global warming effect bring about infectious diseases.
These gases are majorly produced from human activities like bush burning, use of fossil fuels, felling of trees, etc. The diseases may be vector-borne like Malaria (transmitted by the female anopheles mosquito), Dengue fever (transmitted by Aedesaegypti-Aedes Mosquito) and Typhoid (transmitted by Salmonella Typhi). The infectious diseases endemic in the tropics could spread to other locations where no records of them were found. The spread can be attributed to climatic factors becoming suitable for the vectors and pathogens to thrive well in the new locations. The change in the climatic factors is attributed to global warming. Hence, effort must be intensified toward the decline of the concentration of greenhouse gases.
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