Table 3.
Influence of climatic changes on health and diseases
How climatic changes influence health and diseases: | |||||||||||
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Agriculture (food) | Water resources | Tornados and wind | Increase temperature and humidity | Mass migration of | |||||||
Expansion of insect niche | Rodent niche | Direct effects on Human health | |||||||||
Food scanty | Food-borne diseases | Water scanty | Rains and floods | Airborne diseases | Insect/parasites | Insect-borne diseases | Rodents | Rodent-borne diseases | Physical and psychological diseases | Human | Animals |
- Diseases caused by consumption of rotted food - Nutritional deficiency diseases |
- Bacteria (e.g. salmonellosis) - Viral (e.g. hepatitis A) |
- Diseases due to consumption of contaminated water (e.g. cholera, hepatitis A, giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis) - Dehydration and famines |
- Fungal diseases and mycotoxins - Water-borne diseases -Spore-borne diseases (washed away via floods e.g. anthrax). - Snail-borne diseases (e.g. trematodes) |
- In human (e.g. wind pox) and animals (e.g. FMD). |
- Such as Mosquitoes Ticks Flies Flea |
- Including bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases as West Nile fever Plague Malaria and leishmaniasis |
- The spread of rats and mice which has health and economic impacts |
- Hanta disease -Leptospirosis |
- Physical diseases (e.g. sun struck, respirator asthma and heart diseases) - Psychological diseases and stress borne diseases |
Because of wars and famines which spread diseases in addition to its economic impacts | Due to water and food scanty which spread diseases to new areas |