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Global Warming:Its Causes and Effects on Human Health


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1 Department of Agronomy, SardarVallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut (U.P.), India
2 Department of Soil Science, SardarVallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut (U.P.), India
     

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Tropical country like India global warming would adversely affect the human health. Moreover, the incidence of mosquito borne infectious diseases like malaria, Japanese encephalitis, filaria, dengue fever, chikungunya and West Nile fever would increase. Whereas, the scourges of sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS, hepatitis B, gonorrhoea and syphilis would also increase 7 fold. There would also be raise the incidence of non-infectious diseases like night blindness, rickets, anaemia, marasmus, beriberi, kwashiorkor and pellagra.
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Authors

Ashish Dwivedi
Department of Agronomy, SardarVallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut (U.P.), India
Vineet Kumar
Department of Soil Science, SardarVallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut (U.P.), India

Abstract


Tropical country like India global warming would adversely affect the human health. Moreover, the incidence of mosquito borne infectious diseases like malaria, Japanese encephalitis, filaria, dengue fever, chikungunya and West Nile fever would increase. Whereas, the scourges of sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS, hepatitis B, gonorrhoea and syphilis would also increase 7 fold. There would also be raise the incidence of non-infectious diseases like night blindness, rickets, anaemia, marasmus, beriberi, kwashiorkor and pellagra.

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