Perhaps no one imagined that the spread of dengue fever and malaria, two dangerous diseases can be influenced by climate change. With global warming, the disease spread rapidly.
Dengue fever is transmitted by a mosquito of the species Aedes aegypti, which is native to Africa, but it has gradually spread in all tropical and subtropical areas around the world. Unfortunately there is no vaccine against this disease. Dengue fever is also known as the "broken bone fever" as aching muscles are so big that you feel that bones break.
With increasing temperatures signified the coming years, mosquitoes that carry this virus could spread to higher altitudes. In fact many third world villages were built at high altitudes in order to protect themselves from these mosquitoes.
Dengue fever is transmitted by a mosquito of the species Aedes aegypti, which is native to Africa, but it has gradually spread in all tropical and subtropical areas around the world. Unfortunately there is no vaccine against this disease. Dengue fever is also known as the "broken bone fever" as aching muscles are so big that you feel that bones break.
With increasing temperatures signified the coming years, mosquitoes that carry this virus could spread to higher altitudes. In fact many third world villages were built at high altitudes in order to protect themselves from these mosquitoes.
Statistics say that if this disease would expand in a city, about 80% of the population would be affected. Areas with the greatest degree of spread are Latin America and Africa. This virus emerged in Europe, the most significant being the epidemic in Madeira (Portugal) in autumn 2012.
Aedes aegypti
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Gabriela Iftode
03/09/13
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