How can we prevent the spread of disease in a warming world?
Once a tropical disease, dengue is now endemic in around 140 countries
The Climate Question · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
Our warming world is changing the geographical distribution of several animal species. Mosquitoes have been able to colonise new regions, places where they haven’t been found before including Afghanistan and countries in Europe.
According to the World Health Organisation, dengue fever is the most critical mosquito-borne viral disease in the world. Globally there’s been a 30-fold increase in infections in the last 50 years.
But is there a way to prevent the spread of the disease?
Presenter Paul Conolly is joined by:
Valdya Baraputri, reporter, BBC News Indonesia in Jakarta
Dr. Dewi Iriani, Paediatrician at Koja Hospital, Jakarta
Dr Nyla, Vice Director of Koja Regional Hospital, Jakarta
Dr. Imran Pambudi, Director of Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control, Health Ministry of Indonesia
Manisha Kulkarni, Associate Professor University of Ottawa in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health
Felipe Colon Gonzalez, Technology Lead The Wellcome Trust, London
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Producer: Ivana Davidovic
Researcher: Matt Toulson
Production Co-ordinators: Siobhan Reed and Sophie Hill
Series Producer: Alex Lewis
Editor: China Collins
Sound Engineer: Rod Farquhar