Recent studies show that the global warming and the climate change have several impacts on human health including respiratory problems, cardiovascular problems, increase the risk of some infectious diseases particularly those diseases that appear in warm areas and are spread by mosquitoes and other insects  (malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and encephalitis), cholera and heat stress or hypothermia.

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