Climate change will slow China's progress in reducing infectious diseases
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 06:30
in Health & Medicine
China has made significant progress increasing access to tap water and sanitation services, and has sharply reduced the burden of waterborne and water-related infectious diseases over the past two decades. However, in a study published in the latest edition of Nature Climate Change, researchers from Emory University found that climate change will blunt China's efforts at further reducing these diseases in the decades to come.