The purpose of the three-day event was to help build a global community of health practitioners and policymakers that understand and can use climate information to support health delivery and improved outcomes in the context of a changing climate. The meeting focused on infectious diseases, nutrition and the public health outcomes of meteorological disasters.
“In North America, changing weather patterns in both hemispheres are causing alarming disruptions,” Fried wrote in the Huffington Post. “A relatively dry El Niño winter and a warm spring that melted snow earlier-than-normal created forest firesthat forced the evacuation of 80,000 Alberta residents and destroyed more than 702,000 acres—about 1,096 square miles. The Zika virus is entering the United States from the Caribbean, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimates that at least 20 percent of Puerto Rico’s 3.5 million residents will become infected with the mosquito-borne virus this year. … The climate shocks associated with natural variability, such as El Niño, are being compounded by longer-term climatic trends—particularly in temperature—which facilitate further spread of the disease.”
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