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NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
卷 12, 期 9, 页码 869-+出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01426-1
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Climate hazards have been shown to worsen the majority of human pathogenic diseases, with some diseases being mitigated in certain conditions. This highlights the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as a solution.
It is relatively well accepted that climate change can affect human pathogenic diseases; however, the full extent of this risk remains poorly quantified. Here we carried out a systematic search for empirical examples about the impacts of ten climatic hazards sensitive to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on each known human pathogenic disease. We found that 58% (that is, 218 out of 375) of infectious diseases confronted by humanity worldwide have been at some point aggravated by climatic hazards; 16% were at times diminished. Empirical cases revealed 1,006 unique pathways in which climatic hazards, via different transmission types, led to pathogenic diseases. The human pathogenic diseases and transmission pathways aggravated by climatic hazards are too numerous for comprehensive societal adaptations, highlighting the urgent need to work at the source of the problem: reducing GHG emissions.
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