Epidemiologists suspect that global warming will allow arthropod-borne diseases such as dengue fever, yellow fever and malaria to spread from the tropics into temperate regions where they did not previously occur.
流行病學者就懷疑全球氣候暖化使得登革熱、黃熱病、瘧疾…… 等等節肢動物傳染的流行病，都有從熱帶往溫帶非流行區擴散的情形。