Climate change brings risk of more infectious diseases

The number of New Zealanders creature hospitalized with catching diseases has surged in the last two decades, say researchers in a forewarning that the government must do more to understand the links between global warming and public health. Much more try should be made by NZ government agencies and researchers into the potential increase of infectious diseases because of climate modify according to most recent research from the University of Otago, Wellington.

Associate Professor Nick Wilson from the Department of Public Health says a just available review of climate modifies studies and infectious diseases in NZ shows there are important gaps in our knowledge.

“While climate change is having impact on the environment, it is also serious to understand its current and potential impacts on human health, as well as infectious diseases” he says. Over a quarter (26%) of acute hospitalizations in NZ end result from infectious diseases, which is well up on the rate in the early on 1990s when it was 18%.