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Hedied a few days laterin the hospital.
Things start moving northward, expand outside the tropics.
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The amoeba infects people when it enters the nasal canal and, from there, the brain.
People get infected by consuming contaminated shellfish or exposing an open wound no matter how small to Vibrio-contaminated water.
Mosquitoes breed in warm, moist conditions and can spread diseases like dengue when they bite people.
Astudyfrom 2019 warned that much of the southeastern U.S. is likely to become hospitable to dengue by 2050.
What is clear is that climate change is creating more opportunities for rare infectious diseases to crop up.
But health institutions can take steps to limit the spread of rare climate-driven pathogens.
States could conduct real-timemonitoring of beaches for Vibrio bacteriavia satellite.
In other words, he said, we should be finding them before they find us.
This article originally appeared inGristathttps://grist.org/health/the-link-between-climate-change-and-a-spate-of-rare-disease-outbreaks-in-2023/.
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