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Article: Global warming brings fever risk to UK.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 9, 2002
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Byline: GERAINT SMITH
GLOBAL warming will bring a clutch of potentially fatal diseases to Britain, as bugs adjust to the changed climate more rapidly than humans, an expert said today.
Mosquito-borne dengue fever, yellow fever and West Nile fever could be the country's newest diseases, Professor Richard Wise of Birmingham City Hospital said.
The microbiologist also told the British Association Annual Science Festival malaria - which kills about a million people a year, mainly in the tropics - could become prevalent here.
One strain, Plasmodium vivax, used to be endemic to across much of wetland Britain and was known in Shakespeare's ...