Climate change ‘may have profound and unanticipated effects’ on disease transmission

New research by Trinity College Dublin researchers shows temperature variation affects pathogens and their hosts in distinct ways.

As global temperatures rise and extreme weather events such as heatwaves become more common, it’ll become more difficult to predict how these changes will affect disease transmission.

That is according to a study carried out by researchers at Trinity College Dublin, which states that heatwaves and other temperature changes can have varying effects on infection rates and disease outcomes.