Infectious Diseases: Climate Change

(asked on 30th September 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has undertaken of the public health threats posed to the UK by climate change driven changes to vector-borne disease.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 8th October 2019

Public Health England continually assesses the risks posed by climate change to the changing public health threats posed by vector-borne disease. This can be viewed at the following link:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(15)70091-5/fulltext

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