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🌡️ Climate change is redrawing India’s disease map.

In hilly and forested regions, warmer winters, shifting rainfall and rising humidity are helping malaria, dengue and chikungunya spread into areas once considered lower-risk.

The urgent policy gap: India’s health surveillance

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Climate change is redrawing India’s disease map.

In Kashmir, Himachal & other hill states, warmer winters and shifting rainfall are helping malaria, dengue and chikungunya spread into regions once considered lower-risk.

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