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How climate change is spreading current diseases and could expose new epidemics – SBS News
Global warming is boosting the spread of tropical diseases as mosquitoes travel to temperate regions. If it melts the world’s permafrost, it has the potential to unleash pathogens trapped for centuries.
Long-dormant viruses brought back to life. The resurgence of deadly and disfiguring smallpox. A dengue or zika “season” in Europe.
These could be disaster movie storylines, but they are also serious and increasingly plausible scenarios of epidemics unleashed by global warming, scientists say.
The COVID-19 pandemic that has swept the globe and claimed over 760,000 lives so far almost certainly came from a wild bat, highlighting the danger of humanity’s constant encroachment on the planet’s dwin…
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