Opinion Sur Joven

A World Health Organization report forecasts an increase of deaths all over the world as a consequence of the diseases derived from climate change.

The WHO study, presented in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), warns that global warming will bring along outbreaks of diseases such as diarrhea, malaria, avian influenza, new viruses and bacteria, etc.

Experts in the organization point out that the strongest consequences of climate change will take place in developing countries, where the effects of heat will contribute to contaminate water and food.

Nevertheless, the study highlights that the populations of the most developed countries may also suffer the effects of climate change, and mentions the case of the deaths recently registered in Europe resulting from the heat wave and the ones being registered now because of the intense cold.

Likewise, an increase of mosquito populations could spread diseases that do not constitute a health problem today, such as dengue.

Some scientists have forecast that average temperatures of the planet will increase several degrees by year 2030 as a consequence of toxic gas emissions –such as carbon dioxide- onto the atmosphere.

Source: The Camino.