As climate change creates a world in which extreme weather is the norm — so too are large-scale, deadly health outbreaks.
And these crises aren’t contained to regions — extreme weather in one part of the world can be linked to health outbreaks in another.
A significant case of this happened last year. Pakistan’s floods that submerged one-third of the nation fueled its largest cholera outbreak in decades of more than 335,000 suspected cases. Malawi also experienced flooding and Cyclone Freddy which fueled its largest cholera outbreak on record — with nearly 59,000 cases.
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.