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Bookmark or Share- Volcanic eruptions - World Health Organization (WHO)Volcanic eruptions can cause: suffocation. infectious diseases, such as conjunctivitis. acute and chronic respiratory diseases from falling ash and breathing gases and fumes. burns and traumatic injuries, such as lacerations from falling rock. eye and skin irritations from acid rain. Ash and chemicals from the eruption can also generate risk of ...
- Dioxins - World Health Organization (WHO)Dioxins are a group of chemically related compounds that are persistent environmental pollutants (POPs). Dioxins are found throughout the world in the environment and they accumulate in the food chain, mainly in the fatty tissue of animals. More than 90% of human exposure is through food, mainly meat and dairy products, fish and shellfish.
- Wildfires - World Health Organization (WHO)Wildfire smoke is a mixture of air pollutants of which particulate matter (PM) is the principal public health threat. PM from wildfire smoke is associated with premature deaths in the general population, and can cause and exacerbate diseases of the lungs, heart, brain/nervous system, skin, gut, kidney, eyes, nose and liver.
- Drought - World Health Organization (WHO)Drought is a prolonged dry period in the natural climate cycle that can occur anywhere in the world. It is a slow-onset disaster characterized by the lack of precipitation, resulting in a water shortage. Drought can have a serious impact on health, agriculture, economies, energy and the environment. An estimated 55 million people globally are ...
- Mpox - World Health Organization (WHO)Key facts. Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, is a viral illness caused by the monkeypox virus, a species of the genus Orthopoxvirus. There are two distinct clades of the virus: clade I (with subclades Ia and Ib) and clade II (with subclades IIa and IIb). In 2022–2023 a global outbreak of mpox was caused by the clade IIb strain.
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