Besides environmental and economic damage, the ultimate impact of climate change represents a toll on our most precious resource - human lives and health.
Flooding increases the risk of water-borne diseases
Higher temperatures increase dangerous pollutants.
Drought impacts on the most fundamental determinants of health such as food and water.
Temperature increases at higher altitudes may increase the number of disease-carrying mosquitoes.
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