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Climate Change Is Bringing Dengue Fever to the High Himalayas
Inside Climate News · By Story by Avery Schuyler Nunn & photos by Yuri Segalerba ·
The Brief
- Inside Climate News reports that dengue fever, once mainly a lowland disease, is spreading to higher-elevation, densely populated areas of Nepal's Himalayas.
- The article links the spread to warming mountain temperatures, which is allowing mosquitoes to reach higher altitudes.
- The source snippet does not give case counts or specific locations.
Why it matters
Dengue moving into cooler highland areas means populations and health systems not used to the disease may face new outbreak risks as the climate warms.
Who’s affected
- Residents of higher-elevation, densely populated areas of Nepal
- Public health authorities in Nepal and other Himalayan regions
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As Nepal’s mountains warm, mosquitoes are spreading dengue, once strictly a lowland disease, to higher-elevation, densely-populated areas. Story by Avery Schuyler Nunn, photos by Yuri Segalerba The warming of Nepal’s mountains is dramatically transforming some of the grandest…