A Reviewed Literature on the Effect of Global Warming on Infectious Diseases' Dissemination

Climate change presents an urgent and impending threat to virtually all global biological systems. In recent years, there has been a surge in research endeavors aimed at investigating the potential relationship between changes in climate patterns and the spread of infectious diseases. This scoping review aims to assess the influence of climate change and global warming on the spread and occurrence of numerous infectious diseases worldwide. It is recommended that there is an urgent need to carry out some educative programs in all countries to combat global warming and then reduce infectious diseases’ dissemination. This review followed the PRISMA flowchart that included studies on global warming and infectious diseases from 2019 to 2023, The studies were selected by a systematic search using different electronic databases from Science Direct, EBSCO, PUBMED, BIOMED CENTRAL, CINAHL, and Google Scholar, which were filtered to include only studies that were published after January 2019 using MeSH terms to find from total 980 research articles were found in different databases, only 10 studies were eligible for the review scope and aims, they found that climate change has a remarkable impact on the dissemination and incidence of many infectious diseases, there was a significant correlation between precipitation, temperature, and the transmission of pathogens and arthropods, the potential economic devastation caused by a bacterial infection in rice could escalate significantly in the coming decades, also, the highest temperature was shown to have a strong relationship with the incidence of dengue, leptospirosis, food poisoning, TB, and hand, foot, and mouth infections in addition to several viral infections such as COVID-19. The governmental efforts to educate and counsel people to reduce their habits and some wring manners such as fuel burning to decrease global warming as one of the main factors causing infections dissemination.