Photos: Climate Change Pushing Tropical Diseases Toward Arctic
Published 8 Nov 2017, 18:01 GMT, Updated 11 Nov 2017, 00:55 GMT
Baltic beach with pilings to counteract erosion, Poland.
Photograph by Priit Vesilind, National Geographic CreativeA health worker fumigates a favela, or slum, in Recife, Brazil, in February 2016 as part of efforts to fight Zika virus. Rising temperatures may help the disease spread.
Photograph by Thomas Munita, National Geographic CreativeA man sprays the insecticide DDT in mud houses to prevent deadly malaria.
Photograph by John Stanmeyer, National Geographic CreativeJose Dliveira, 42, suffers from malaria in Rondonia, Brazil.
Photograph by Michael Nichols, National Geographic CreativeChildren play at low tide in the Gulf of Mexico, where disease has claimed the lives of bathers.
Photograph by Raúl Touzon, National Geographic Creative