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2007년 4월 25일

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Andrew Jack, Financial Times

Climate change bites

[A] 59-year-old man...[in] Corsica...contracted malaria…In the first case of locally derived… malaria in Corsica in 35 years, researchers believe the patient contracted it via one of a number of carrier mosquitoes that have re-established themselves in the region. While much attention has focused on the broad environmental consequences of global warming, the Corsican incident highlighted its troubling medical implications. "Health is moving more to the centre of the climate change debate," says Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum from...the World Health Organisation (WHO)...Not all the effects of climate change will be negative for health…The spread of infectious disease has certainly helped boost corporate research in previously neglected areas…Other pharmaceutical company research into tropical diseases has been motivated by corporate responsibility, including work by Novartis in seeking a treatment for Dengue, another mosquito-borne disease on the rise…