14 DAY TRIAL // Health experts have recently warned that if the global temperature is on a continual rise, so are rates of fearful conditions such as heart disease, malaria or dengue fever. Consequently, a warmer world is going to be the environment of a sicker population and something must be done about this as soon as possible.
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum of the World Health Organization cautioned: "Climate affects some of the most important diseases afflicting the world. The impacts may already be significant." Also, a U.N. network of climate scientists has projected that increasing global warming will "increase threats to human health, particularly in lower income populations, predominantly within tropical-subtropical countries."
For instance, Solomon M. Nzioka, a Kenyan Health Ministry consultant warned that the increase in temperature has led to elevated rates of malaria epidemics in Kenyan highland areas, where until recently, colder weather has protected the population from diseases spread by mosquitoes. But taking into account that even a little rise in temperature results in a 10-fold increase in the mosquito population, the rates of malaria will inevitably boost. Solomon Nzioka stated: "Highland malaria seems to be on the increase in the rainy season and when temperatures are high."
Dr. Bettina Menne of the World Health Organization also highlighted the fact that high temperature brings about threats of other mosquito-borne diseases - dengue fever and West Nile virus. "There's an increased risk of local outbreaks, especially in the Mediterranean, of dengue and West Nile virus," the WHO expert cautioned.
On the other hand, China has announced that health officials are striving to deal with and reduce mortality rates due to events such as stroke and heart disease which leads to heart attack. The increase in average temperature is the key-factor which caused more people to experience a heart attack or stroke, explained Jin Yinlong of China's Institute for Environmental Health.