Climate change impacts on vector-borne infectious diseases (A Review (original) (raw)

Climate is "the average weather, described in terms of the mean and other statistical quantities that measure the variability over a period of time and possibly over a certain geographical region"(1). Within the 20 th century, the cooling trend of the last 1,000 years has been reversed due to greenhouse gases being trapped in the atmosphere and the average temperature has risen by 1°C(2). In fact, the amount of carbon dioxide has always been between 180 to 280 ppm in the atmosphere, but today it is 336 ppm, surpassing the rates observed in the ice core records. As a result of climate change, global warming is taking place, which happens to occur twice as fast during the night-time in winter and at high latitudes in the winter; also the oceans are warming up to 3km down(3,2). Global warming,