If Earth gets sick, so do you

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Date of Publication: May 22

Year of Publication: 2024

Publication City: Paris, France

Publisher: The Conversation

Author(s): Jack Marley

A hotter world is likely to be a sicker world.

Earth’s growing fever has obvious repercussions for human health, like heatwaves that are hotter than our physiology can tolerate. Humanity’s departure from the stable climate it inherited will yield surprises, too, though. Some of those may be existing diseases appearing in new places or spreading with greater ferocity. And some, experts fear, may be new diseases entirely.

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