Climate change has played a role in expanding the reach of dengue fever, the report said. Deaths from the disease are going up quickly, particularly in southeast Asia and the Americas.
Though skin cancer is rising in some areas as well, the connection to climate change is more behavioral than environmental. People are likely to spend more time outside during warmer, drier temperatures, which increases their exposure to ultraviolet radiation that causes skin cancer.
Malignant skin cancer rates have gone up in Europe, the Western Pacific, and the Americas.
Diseases caused by the waterborne Vibrio bacteria — like wound infections, sepsis, and the stomach flu — are also going up globally.
According to the report, the percentage of coastal areas susceptible to these infections has gone up in northern latitudes over the last few decades. The northeastern US and the Baltic region are particularly vulnerable.
At the same time, some climate-related diseases' mortality rates have gone down. Diarrheal diseases, for example, are on the decline in Africa. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine says greater access to safe water and sanitation has likely contributed to this decline.