Heat in Europe raises risk of infectious disease spread

The risk of infectious diseases is growing amid longer and warmer summers across Europe, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has warned, according to Euronews.

“While the current heatwaves are making headlines, it is the continuously higher temperatures of an ever longer duration that create the conditions for many infections to spread,” the health agency said in a press release.

There are four particular areas the ECDC is monitoring: foodborne diseases, mosquito-borne diseases, tick-borne diseases, and diseases caused by waterborne Vibrio bacteria.