Commentaries by Sakshi Agarwal and Aniket Sachan

The Link Between Climate Change and Human Health

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The Link Between Climate Change and Human Health

Sakshi Agarwal and Aniket Sachan

May 14, 2020 03:20:08 am

Introduction COVID-19, which has brought human life to a standstill across the globe, is not a climate-change pandemic. The worldwide increase of infectious disease is the result of a changed human lifestyle that has consequently altered the biological ecosystem. The spread of infectious agents because of climate conditions was discovered in the later part of [...]

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