Transboundary Human Diseases from Natural Disasters

Abstract

Countries around the world are frequently affected by natural disasters due to climate changes such as global warming,resulting in storms, floods, droughts and henceforth drastic shift of human destiny. Climate changes and its effects has caused famine, and economic, political and social loss. These changes could render human migration both internal movement and also to more developed neighboring countries. Meanwhile,the global warming facilitates microbes and carriers to transmit the infection and expand more rapidly around the world. In addition, many severe infectious diseases, including food borne diseases, respiratory diseases and vector borne diseases, have emerged and spread throughout the world. Human should learn from the history and experiences in order to prepare themselves to reduce the risks for infectious diseases, health related adverse events and natural disasters in the near future.