Study: Climate crisis endangers 8 billion people from mosquito - borne diseases

malaria and tropical fever will be distributed to reach billions of people, according to new projections.

Researchers predict that up to 4.7 billion more people will be threatened by the two best known diseases borne by mosquitoes, compared with the 1970s to 1999 figures, notes the Guardian.

The figures are based on population growth projections for 4.5 billion in the same period, and temperature increases of 3.7 degrees Celsius to 2100.

The study, led by the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, found that if emissions levels continued to increase to the current degree, the effect on global temperatures would prolong the transmission season in more than a month for malaria and more than four months for tropical fever in the next 50 years.

malaria kills more than 400,000 people each year, most of them children, according to the World Health Organization. [ Footnote] OBS. /Periscope