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Climate change and health
Changes in climate have become more severe such as increasingly hot summers, prolonged periods of drought and increased periods of extreme weather such as prolonged rainfall. What is not always realised is that such changes can also have a severe impact on our health. Two recent examples of severe weather include the monsoon floods that devastated Pakistan in August 2022 and more recently tropical cyclone Freddy, the most severe tropical storm in more than 100 years, which devastated parts of Mozambique and Malawi.
However less well understood is the effect that such weather patterns can have on our health. In the aftermath of cyclone Freddy and flooding in Pakistan, residual pools of water will allow mosquitos to breed, which will result in increased cases of malaria for which there is no effective vaccine as yet.
