From fatal allergies to heart attacks and cholera – the devastating health effects of global warming in Africa

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Wild fires create their own weather systems, generating fire storms with devastating effects.

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People, Infection, Arbovirus, Food, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Vibrio, Gastroenteritis, Climate, Diarrhea, Stroke, City, Farmer, Dehydration, Rift Valley fever, Cardiovascular disease, Heat exhaustion, Splenic infarction, Livestock, Climate change, Chikungunya, Temperature, Risk, Heat stroke, Filariasis, Schistosomiasis, Human, Flood, Population, Time, Cholera, Water, Dengue fever, Pregnancy, Bacteria, Health, USGlobal Airways, Death, Environment, Food security, Pelvic floor dysfunction, Insecticide, Malaria, Agriculture, Animal husbandry, Vaccine, Tea
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AUSTRALIA, MADAGASCAR, SOUTH AFRICA, AFRICA, US, TANZANIA, EUROPE
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  • Wild fires create their own weather systems, generating fire storms with devastating effects.
  • Global warming will increase the number of days of shimmering heat, creating the ideal conditions for fire.
  • Global warming and El Niño combined suggest that the years ahead will result in increasing, devastating impacts.

Heat, air quality and health

    • High temperatures cause heat stroke, heat exhaustion, heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular disease.
    • People in informal settlements, and badly maintained and crowded buildings, are especially vulnerable to heat stress.

Less food, lower nutrition

    • In South Africa, drought recurrently affects subsistence agriculture, livestock and commercial crops.
    • The impact of drought on food and nutrition will be felt by the most vulnerable, including infants, small children and pregnant women and those who already live on or below the poverty line.
    • Crop failure and drought, combined with increased food costs associated with disruptions to global food resources, will affect every one of us.

Every drop counts

    • Humans require adequate hydration to survive, and the combination of increasing temperatures and water shortages heightens the risk of organ failure and death.
    • In addition, dependence on poor quality and contaminated water has an impact on household and personal hygiene, and intestinal infections.

Neglected diseases

    • Other viral and bacterial infectious diseases, especially prevalent in Africa, are also likely to increase with global warming.
    • Bundled together as “neglected diseases of poverty”, these include both parasitic and viral vector borne diseases such as Rift Valley fever, malaria, filariasis, schistosomiasis, dengue fever, chikungunya and influenza as well as arboviruses such as different influenza pathogens.

So where does this leave us?

    • When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established in 1988, we had a choice to interrupt climate change and slow global warming.
    • This does not mean there is nothing we can do to halt the destruction of planetary life.
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