• Question: what does climate change have to do with spreading disease ? thnx for asking my question.

    Asked by 367cmtm36 to Aileen, Caroline, Christopher, Rehemat, Stephanie, Stephen on 7 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Aileen Baird

      Aileen Baird answered on 7 Mar 2018:

      Climate change can be significant for spreading lots of different diseases. One example is malaria- as our planet warms, the mosquito which carries the malaria disease will be able to live in a much bigger area (it can only live in hot places). This means that the malaria disease will also be able to spread to a much bigger population of people which could be a big problem!

    • Photo: Christopher Nankervis

      Christopher Nankervis answered on 7 Mar 2018:

      Some diseases are spread more easily in warmer and damper climates. Potatoes have a disease called blight that require hot and damp summers.

    • Photo: Stephanie Mann

      Stephanie Mann answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      When diseases are able to spread to new places because the climate is right for them, it affects people more because their immune systems aren’t able to cope as well with new diseases. This is why spreading diseases can be a big problem for many countries

    • Photo: Stephen Twomlow

      Stephen Twomlow answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      Changes in local climate can change the conditions for different diseases to either thrive or decline, and if one disease declines another will fill the niche it left. Ask your teachers about succession

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