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Climate change and its impact on vector-borne diseases

Climate change is one of the most critical global challenges of our times and its issue of concern for every global citizen. Many important public health challenges are attributed to climate change and rise of vector-borne diseases is one of them.   The most deadly vector-borne disease, malaria, caused an estimated 660000 deaths in 2010. However, the world's fastest growing vector-borne disease is dengue, with a 30-fold increase in disease incidence over the last 50 years. Multiple factors have impact on transmission of vector-borne diseases, and causing their appearance in countries where they were previously unknown.