Nature “” The climate crisis is a health crisis, warned the World Health Organization at the dawn of 2020, three weeks before the Covid-19 epidemic worsened in China. Climate change causes more extreme weather events, exacerbates malnutrition and fuels the spread of infectious diseases like malaria. ”
A grim prospect that is only a small part of the health effects of humans’ harmful footprints on the planet. Among these threats, infectious diseases are the most unpredictable, capable of undermining health systems in a very short time.
Nibbled natural habitat
In the space of a century, scientific and technical progress has reduced the number of people with these diseases, but the number of epidemics, and their diversity, continues to grow. Covid-19, according to prevailing scientific hypotheses, would have come into contact with humans v
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