"Climate Change Linked to Higher Rates of Disease."

"At 10,000 feet above sea level, the cool mountain air over Colombia’s high-altitude Andean ecosystems used to defend the region from diseases typically confined to tropical zones. But scientists fear that rising temperatures due to climate change may jeopardize the health and well-being of millions of people living in these mountains. "
As I learn more and more about climate change, one issue keeps emerging from each article... Mosquitoes.
Warmer temperatures allow mosquitoes to thrive and parasites to mature inside them before being transmitted to humans. As average temperatures increase, so have the instances of potentially fatal mosquito-borne illnesses.
In addition to higher disease rates and melting glaciers, the assessment projected that more than half of the páramo grasslands could disappear by mid-century.
The good news is, in two dozen municipalities throughout the Colombian Andes, a new monitoring system will track the rates of transmission and exposure for each disease and measure the data against climate patterns. The program aims to reduce incidents of the diseases within these places by one-third over five years.
The results and effects that could occur from lack of attention and proper care to the environmental issues that we are having, do not only effect the areas in which mosquitoes attack and glaciers melt... this effects the entire world. Though it may not show in the immediate future, the effects will overcome us all in a future generation.