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.