Spectrum | 26.11.2008 | 00:30
The Deadly Dozen
There are more than a dozen lethal diseases threatening mankind, but 12 pathogens have something else in common besides a link to climate: they can infect wildlife, domestic animals as well as people.
As if rising sea levels, too much rain in some areas, prolonged droughts in others were not bad enough consequences of climate change, scientists have recently pointed to another emerging threat -- changes in temperature and in rainfall may increase the risk of infectious disease. The New York based Wildlife Conservation Society has compiled a list of “The Deadly Dozen”. Madeleine Amberger reports.











