No one doubt: global warming is well underway … Beyond the ecological danger it represents, it poses new threats to our health.
Why global warming has an impact on our health?
To recall, experts predict by 2100 a temperature increase of 1.8 to 4 ° C. Among other ecological devastation, that global warming is a real public health issue. “It is clear that climate change has an impact on so-called” vectors “of pathogens, that is to say,tibia gold, mosquitoes, ticks or sand flies (insects of Mediterranean regions) that carry certain viruses or bacteria, “explains Professor Fons Van Gompel Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. “These vehicles tend to multiply when it is wetter and warmer, like rodents, rats or mice, hantavirus reservoirs for example.” All these little critters and people who carry diseases are at the party as the temperature rises each year by a few hundredths of a degree … Read the rest of this entry »