My curiosity has kicked again, this time about global warming and diseases. With all the alarming news on TV and on the internet, I think people over reacting to the scenario are merely acceptable. There was actually a journal released by World Health Organization saying that climate change will really have a big impact on communicable diseases. They mention about an increase in water born and respiratory diseases beside eye and skin diseases. There will also be problems with diarrhea especially for developing countries as well as heat stroke due to high temperature. In connection to this increased temperature, some places who didn’t have cases of Dengue fever will have a probability because high temperature is conducive to mosquito breeding. They also mentioned about increase rate of malaria and heat stroke. In this case, how can we protect ourselves? We have to take extra safety measures. I think the spread of diseases is also one of the effects of globalization.

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