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This comes as Singapore’s third National Climate Change Study, released in January, suggested the Republic could experience more extreme weather by the end of the century, such as more frequent dry spells and hotter days. The method could, for example, simulate the impact of increased temperatures on the number of cases of strokes and heart attacks, she noted.
Meanwhile, another project is looking at the repercussions of environmental changes on vector-borne diseases, which include dengue and malaria. And in places with multiple seasons, which typically experience such diseases in the summer, mosquitoes may be able to breed into autumn due to warming temperatures, he said.“This means that there’s a higher likelihood that diseases which are not already in Singapore have a higher potential to be imported into the country,” said Prof Lim, pointing to mosquito-borne pathogens such as the Japanese encephalitis virus and yellow fever virus, which are currently not found here.