Commonwealth health ministries under pressure amid rise in climate-related illnesses
Heat stress and increase in insect-borne diseases particularly acute in smaller states, warns secretary general Lady Scotland
April 2024
Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe due to climate crisis, says expert
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
‘I felt pains all over my body’: Argentina battles dengue outbreak as politicians pass up vaccine opportunity
March 2024
Brazil to release millions of anti-dengue mosquitoes as death toll from outbreak mounts
Mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria that inhibit spread of disease to be introduced in six cities after successful pilot scheme
February 2024
Brazil starts mass vaccination amid upsurge in dengue fever
Emergency measures taken as 364,855 cases of mosquito-borne infection reported this year, a fourfold increase on year before
December 2023
Health and climate
Climate crisis could cause 10,000 extra UK deaths a year by 2050, says health body
A report by the UK Health Security Agency warns that extreme heat could bring a host of tropical diseases transmitted by insects
November 2023
Health and climate
At risk: 10 ways the changing climate is creating a health emergency
Diseases will spread faster and further, and kill more people, as the effects of record heat, floods, drought and storms escalates
Health and climate
Jamaica’s dengue fever outbreak shows the deadly effects of record heat
Georgiana Gordon-Strachan
The global failure to reduce fossil fuels is leaving small island states trapped in a never-ending cycle of fightback against disease and extreme weather
Health and climate
‘Paying in lives’: health of billions at risk from global heating, warns report
Inaction on the climate crisis is ‘costing lives and livelihoods’ due to extreme heat, food insecurity and infectious diseases, say scientists
September 2023
‘A first in Paris’: city fumigates for tiger mosquitoes as tropical pests spread, bringing disease
Parisian health authorities treat French capital for the first time as Zika and dengue-carrying tiger mosquitoes advance through northeastern Europe
May 2023
Medics in Sudan warn of crisis as health system near collapse
Critical shortages of basic goods including water, and bodies piling in streets creating ‘environmental catastrophe’
November 2022
Sudan experiences worst dengue fever outbreak for more than a decade
Floods caused by warming temperatures and a lack of preventive care are driving the spread of the disease in a country racked with political and economic upheaval
October 2022
Weatherwatch
Weatherwatch: climate crisis causing tropical viruses to spread
Infections such as dengue fever on rise in Europe as virus-transmitting mosquitoes expand habitats
March 2022
A moment that changed me
A moment that changed me: dengue fever put me in hospital – and taught me to love my body
After days of shivering and vomiting, I began admiring my ability to fight off illness, rather than worrying about the size of my thighs
July 2021
Climate crisis ‘may put 8bn at risk of malaria and dengue’
Reducing global heating could save millions of people from mosquito-borne diseases, study finds
November 2020
Yemen: in a country stalked by disease, Covid barely registers
War, hunger and devastating aid cuts have made the plight of Yemeni’s almost unbearable, and the pandemic seem like just another tragedy
October 2020
Scientists study whether immune response wards off or worsens Covid
Research into antibodies could explain children’s protection against disease, or why virus causes life-threatening effects
December 2019
The Guardian picture essay
Asia's hardest year for dengue fever – in pictures
More than a million cases were reported in south-east Asia last year with poorer households most at risk
Harmed by heat
Mosquitoes bring ‘mystery illness’ to the mountain villages of Nepal
Global heating linked to outbreaks of dengue fever high in the Kathmandu Valley
Harmed by heat
Global heating driving spread of mosquito-borne dengue fever
Record numbers across Asia and Americas infected as rising temperatures extend disease to places once seen as safe
