2024-04-29 07:32:30
Scientists at the Health Security Agency in Britain have warned that “more than half of the world’s population may be at risk of contracting mosquito-borne diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever, by the end of this century.”
According to the German News Agency, experts said, “It is expected that outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases will spread, due to global warming, to parts of northern Europe and other regions of the world during the next few decades.”
Data from the Health Security Agency in the United Kingdom showed that imported malaria cases exceeded two thousand cases last year for the first time in more than 20 years.
The agency announced, “The number of confirmed cases of malaria after traveling abroad in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland has increased, reaching 2,004 cases in 2023, compared to 1,369 cases in 2022,” adding that “this increase is linked to the resurgence of malaria in many countries.” And increase travel abroad.
It is noteworthy that in Europe, mosquitoes carrying “dengue fever” have invaded 13 European countries since 2000, as the disease spread locally in France, Italy and Spain in 2023, and the number of “dengue fever” cases reported to the World Health Organization worldwide increased by 8-fold over the past two decades, reaching more than 5 million cases in 2019, compared to 500,000 cases in 2000.
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2024-04-29 07:32:30