The impact on public health from climate change may be far reaching and include deaths and hospitalizations due to heat waves; hypothermia from blizzards; injuries and death from flooding; and potential shifts in the transmission ranges of vector-borne diseases such as hantavirus, West Nile virus, tick-borne encephalitis, Lyme disease, Malaria and Dengue.
Vpliv podnebnih sprememb na javno zdravje je lahko daljnosežen ter vključuje smrti in hospitalizacije zaradi vročinskih valov, hipotermijo zaradi snežnih neurij, poškodbe in smrt zaradi poplav in možne premike obsega prenosljivosti vektorsko prenosljivih bolezni, kot je hantavirus, virus zahodnega Nila, klopni meningoencefalitis, limska bolezen, malarija in mrzlica denga.