Climate change likely to worsen threat of diarrheal disease in Botswana, arid African countries

In a National Science Foundation funded study, Kathleen Alexander, an associate professor of wildlife at Virginia Tech, found that climate drives a large part of diarrheal disease and increases the threat that climate change poses on vulnerable communities.The only study of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa is based on three decades of historical data and has important implications for arid countries around the world struggling with poverty and increasing health challenges.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/vt-…