Stan is going to be grimly prescient.
As climate change intensifies scarcity and conflict over resources, it displaces people and spreads disease. In Syria, extreme drought has forced more than 1.5 million farmers to move to overcrowded cities. Water shortages and degraded land have exacerbated existing government rights abuses and civil unrest. With over 12 million displaced Syrians, often in tightly packed refugee camps, tuberculosis is free to proliferate. Tuberculosis thrives in conflict-torn regions where the absence of healthcare workers, drug supply chains, and robust health infrastructure hamstrings prevention, diagnosis, and treatment efforts. When climate effects like drought compound conflict and displacement, airborne exposure in refugee camps and high-density, urban migrant populations accelerate disease transmission.
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