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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. From West Nile fever to asthma, climate change is exacerbating infectious diseases and hampering our ability to fight them.This is what emerges from research published in the magazine Nature Climate Change in August, according to which more than half of the infectious diseases known to impact humans have been made more dangerous by climate change. Diseases such as hepatitis, cholera, malaria and many others are spreading faster, affecting large segments of the population around the world and becoming more severe due to climate-related events.And it's not just transmissibility that's increasing:Climate change has impacts on health, immunity and access to medical care. “The global health response to these diseases will have to be massive,” he commented Erik Franklin, associate professor at the University of Hawaii and one of the study's authors.“It's more p...