The Climate Conversations Podcast: Predicting the next pandemic
When people are displaced due to climate change, how does that increase the risk of disease outbreaks?
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How are warmer temperatures accelerating the spread of pathogens and what role does climate migration play in disease outbreaks?
Dr Mary Rodgers, who manages the Abbott Global Viral Surveillance Program, explains to Julie Yoo.
We actually have seen that over half of all known pathogens can actually be affected by climate change in one way or another. And so that means that we've a pretty big challenge ahead of us as things become less predictable due to all of these changes.
Jump to these key moments:
- 1:27 What does a virus hunter do?
- 3:45 Climate change - the fire starter
- 9:12 The next pandemic
- 10:11 Climate migration speeding pathogen spread
- 16:19 Lessons from COVID-19
- 20:19 Preventing the next global health emergency
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