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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Kat Lay, Global health correspondent

Europe’s medical schools to give more training on diseases linked to climate crisis

A scientist holding a container of mosquitos
A container of Asian tiger mosquitos in a study of how the climate crisis may affect the spread of tropical diseases in Germany. Dengue is on the rise in Europe. Photograph: Steffen Kugler/Getty

Mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and malaria will become a bigger part of the curriculum at medical schools across Europe in the face of the climate crisis.

Future doctors will also have more training on how to recognise and treat heatstroke, and be expected to take the climate impact of treatments such as inhalers for asthma into account, medical school leaders said, announcing the formation of the European Network on Climate & Health Education (Enche).

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