Diseases Explode after Extreme Flooding and Other Climate Disasters--Pakistan example

Diseases Explode after Extreme Flooding and Other Climate Disasters Devastating floods in Pakistan are driving the spread of disease—and climate change is making such events more common Erin Biba Scientific American

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How Disasters Amplify Disparities

In places where flooding is increasing, scientists can monitor certain trends to predict how the growing threat will impact public health. “When you look at disasters as systems that create vulnerability, you know that preexisting conditions are going to be aggravated in a disaster,” says Njoki Mwarumba, an assistant professor of emergency management and disaster science at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Racial, socioeconomic and health disparities can predict how emergencies will impact a region. Inequality will be the deciding factor in who is the most impacted and how. “Disasters don’t create those [problems], they amplify them,” Mwarumba says.

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