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Climate change may aggravate more than half of human pathogens

Even after sounding warnings about the impacts of climate change on human health for more than 25 years, Jonathan Patz, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Nelson Institute, was still surprised at the many ways researchers found climate hazards affect disease.

“They found over 1,000 unique pathways,” said Patz, who participated as a co-author. “That to me was striking.”