Source: https://www.womeninscience.africa/climate-change-worsens-infectious-diseases/

Scientists, in a recent study, have found that of pathogens known to have infected humans, more than half may cause more widespread disease as a result of rising temperatures, precipitation changes or other climate-related factors.

The study, published in Nature Climate Change, proved beyond a doubt that consequences of climate change; warming, drought and sea-level rise, worsen most infectious diseases by enabling transmission and increasing the severity of outbreaks. According to co-author of the study, Professor Camilo Mora at the University of Hawai’i, “systems have been evolving for millions of years and now humans have come along and changed things. We are punching nature, but nature is punching us back.”