African Climes

 Climate change affects human health in various and many ways, some of which I look at below.   Climate change and diseases  Climate change causes erratic and unpredictable weather patterns. Some places become colder, others wetter, others drier, mostly outside the normal times. In terms of human health, weather patterns will affect the life cycles of pathogens and population, breeding patterns and abundance of vectors. a doctor and a patient - courtesy of dhmri A vector is an organism which provides habitation for, while not being directly affected by a pathogen. Let’s take a tropical disease like Malaria. Malaria is caused by protozoa known as plasmodium. Plasmodium uses mosquitoes as a vector. When an infected mosquito bites a person, it passes along plasmodium into that person’s bloodstream. Mosquitoes also pass along several other diseases alongside malaria, such as yellow fever, elephantiasis, rift valley fever and of course, Zika. A female anopheles mosquito -

Well, well! Hello there class! Young, fresh and beaming with health. Glad to see you hale and hearty, healthy and whole. It is yet another year and we begin the year on a high note by focusing on us! May it be a year where we take off, soar the heavens and ride the waves. To welcome you to the subject matter this year, we will start with a topic that touches home in every heart beating in this class. Youth And Climate We must be the change we want to see. Embed from Getty Images And off we go! Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is a well-known climate change activist;he champions the conservation of the environment, especially from the viewpoint of indigenous people who are at the forefront of climate change. He is 16 years old. He is also the leader of Earth Guardians which as the name implies see themselves as the young guardians of this our lovely planet. He is also a recording hip hop artiste. He has spoken at UN conferences and given talks to his peers on the importa