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Browsing: Unpredictable weather cycles
Changing weather patterns not only affect food production and ecosystems that humans depend on but they also create challenges which threaten the very existence of humanity.
Diseases are some of the risks that come with unpredictable weather cycles making it hard to predict or curtail outbreaks.
With increased disease outbreaks, there is strain on available resources which include human, technical and financial. In addition, time is usually limited if it becomes an issue of race against an epidemic.
Is Africa ready for the risks associated with climate change?
A look at the response in most countries in Africa shows that while governments may do the best they can to contain outbreaks, the changing climate phenomenon may make it harder since pathogens that cause the diseases may be mutating and becoming resistant to available drugs.
This means that without the capacity to keep researching and producing new and stronger drugs, the …