Climate change and sugarcane expansion expected to boost hantavirus cases
Friday, July 21, 2017 - 13:32
in Earth & Climate
Rising global temperatures and changes to land use have both been shown to have profound impacts on human health. Now researchers have found one more infectious disease that's expected to be affected. By 2050, the number of people in risk of hantavirus in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, they found, will increase by more than 20 percent due to climate change and land use changes.