A new report shows which infections are becoming more common at sea and on land. Vectors aren't just mosquitoes, but also rodents. Some countermeasures come with drawbacks. Older generations are often accused of caring too little about the consequences of the climate crisis. Yet the impacts of global warming are likely to affect them severely too: older people — like very young or vulnerable individuals — have greater difficulties coping with heatwaves, infections and other health-stressing phenomena that are projected to occur more frequently in future.

This is also made clear by the new assessment report on climate change and health, the first part of which was published on Thursday by the German Robert Koch Institute and also appears in the "Journal of Health Monitoring". "Our intention is not to cause panic, but to inform and raise awareness among the public," emphasised one of the authors, Elke Hertig, at a press briefing ahead of the publication. She conducts research as a professor of regional climate change and health at the University of Augsburg.

More on this at: derstandard.de

Also read the brochure "Climate Change and Health", published in collaboration with BOKU and the Environment Agency Austria.