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6 climatechange AndInfectiousDiseases Today, worldwide, there is anapparent increase in manyinfectious diseases, includingsome newly-circulating ones(HIV/AIDS, hantavirus,hepatitis C, SARS, etc.). This reflects the combinedimpacts of rapiddemographic, environmental,social, technological andother changes in our ways-of-living. Climate change willalso affect infectious CHANGE AND HUMAN HEALTH - RISK AND RESPONSES 16 Humans have known that climaticconditions affect epidemic diseasesfrom long before the role ofinfectious agents was discovered,late in the nineteenth aristocrats retreated to hillresorts each summer to avoidmalaria. South Asians learnt earlythat, in high summer, stronglycurried foods were less likely tocause diarrhoea. Infectious agents vary greatly insize, type and mode oftransmission. There are viruses,bacteria, protozoa and multicellularparasites.
6 Climate Change And Infectious Diseases Today, worldwide, there is an apparent increase in many infectious diseases, including some newly-circulating ones
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