The risk of infectious diseases is growing amid longer and warmer summers across Europe, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has warned.
Close cooperation across borders and sectors is now vital to effectively predict, prevent and respond to these threats
“While the current heatwaves are making headlines, it is the continuously higher temperatures of an ever longer duration that create the conditions for many infections to spread,” the health agency said in a press release.
As climate change widens the range of public health threats, the ECDC added, there is a growing need for longer-term strategic collaboration across the human, environmental, and animal sectors.
There are four particular areas the ECDC is monitoring:
